Dan Roach

Our Women’s U19s look to build on their 1-1 draw with Pontypridd United last time out as @danroach_’s side travel to face The New Saints at Park Hall in their fourth #GeneroAdranU19 Premier Conference fixture tomorrow (7:30pm KO)⏩🔴 Best of luck, girls! #NomadsNeverDie | @SGerrardAcademy

👀An exciting local double header at The Poppies 3G tomorrow… First up is our Men’s U19s, who hope to strengthen their place at the top of the @FAWales National Academi North against Newtown (1:30pm KO)🔴 Later in the afternoon, our Women’s U19s have their first home fixture in the #GeneroAdranU19 Premier Conference as @danroach_’s side host Briton Ferry Llansawel (4:30pm KO)💪 All support is much appreciated! #NomadsNeverDie #Academy #OneClub

🎙️🇪🇸 Thiago Alcântara: "I have that ‘hate modern football’ mentality... I’m more classic in attitude. "The No.10 role has almost disappeared. We see less magic, less fantasy. Footballers do more, but faster. Players are more developed in every sense… the playmaker who was slower, even if he had sublime technique, doesn’t get the opportunity to turn anymore. There's also VAR. I've always been against it and wish it didn’t exist. It takes the essence of the game away from you. We make mistakes when we play. Referees must do so too, as they are human. Without trickery, many famous moments in the history of football would not have happened."

@Carl_M79 They’ll find a way to rule it out, of course

How can that be handball??

Our Women’s U19 @SGerrardAcademy scholars were also victorious in their British Colleges Cup tie against Runshaw earlier this afternoon as @HannahSlack08 bagged a last-minute winner to seal a 4-3 victory🤩 Hannah Slack⚽️⚽️ Alisha Whitehead-Hughes⚽️⚽️ Well done, girls! #NomadsNeverDie #Academy

Hot Mulligan topped my year. Here’s how I listened in my #SpotifyWrapped. spotify.com/wrapped-share/…

Our Women’s U19 moved four points clear at the top of the #GeneroAdranNorthU19 league with a 4-1 victory over The New Saints at The Poppies 3G earlier tonight👏🔴 Hannah Slack⚽️⚽️ Alisha Whitehead-Hughes⚽️⚽️ Well done, girls! #NomadsNeverDie #Academy

Wins for both our @SGerrardAcademy Men’s U19 scholars and Women’s U19 scholars in the British Colleges Cup this afternoon✅ Men’s U19 (7-1 win away to Stockport County): Josh Mather⚽️⚽️ Tom Malcolm⚽️⚽️ Freddie Naylor⚽️ Jack Fagan⚽️ Own goal⚽️ Women’s U19 (4-1 win away to Cardinal Newman): Farrah Aslam⚽️⚽️⚽️ Lily Manchester⚽️ Well done to both teams on their emphatic performances👏 #NomadsNeverDie #Academy

Our Women’s U19s maintain their unbeaten start to the #GeneroAdranNorthU19 league following a 2-2 draw with The New Saints earlier tonight🤝 Alisha Whitehead-Hughes⚽️ Elin Thomas⚽️ Well done, girls! #NomadsNeverDie | @SGerrardAcademy

Tonight’s @SGerrardAcademy scholar action🔴: Our Men’s U18s look to maintain their lead at the top of the @FAWales Reserve League as the lads host Bala Town at The Poppies 3G (8pm KO)💪 Our Women’s U19s are on the road as they travel to face The New Saints at Park Hall, with @danroach_’s side hoping to build on a positive point against Wrexham last week (8pm KO)🙌 #NomadsNeverDie #Academy

Suicide. I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis. You take a rope. You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away. You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck. Then you drop. Some are decapitated. Some aren't. All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them. A son. A daughter. A brother. A sister. A mother. A father. I know 2 men who hung themselves. One was found by his Mom. One was found by his brother. Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on. A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something. So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"? A segway for a moment. I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group. After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is.. "Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue". Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling. "Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom. After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle". Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard". And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying. Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag. If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention. They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up". They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them. If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine. Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out. So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are. You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked. For those who struggle, you're not alone.

Friday night…you know what that means…FOOTBALL⚽️ Our Women’s U19s face their second game in the #GeneroAdranNorthU19 league as Wrexham visit The Poppies 3G👊🔴 @danroach_’s side ran out 4-2 victors away to The Red Dragons just three weeks ago and will hope to build on that impressive display🙌 ⏱️8pm 🫵All support is much appreciated!

@Carl_M79 Robbo must be incredibly frustrated sitting watching, need his know how in games like this.

Kerkez doing very little to change my mind BTW....

New season. Ready to attack it ⚽️

@elliotthale7 @kirstiekural @FAWales Yet there are teams who’d rather win by crazy results & choose not to have the chance to develop players by allowing U19s sides to compete next season. U19s sides are senior sides too, if the same players represented different clubs as a senior side there’d be no issue. Sad.

@danroach_ @kirstiekural @FAWales When I had flint in tier 3 it was the same mate we were putting conditions before we even kicked a ball against teams and still getting crazy results

Tier 3 women’s football, has never been looked after. Under 19’s women’s left to fall on its head. Something needs to change pretty quick as we are approaching season and no one knows where they are weeks after a league meeting.

@kirstiekural @elliotthale7 @FAWales Scandalous. The whole point for us is to develop young players in a senior environment. Games would be more competitive than people realise but won’t give it a chance. There were many women’s games last season (with no U19s sides) that ended in 7+ goal wins. Any complaints then?

@danroach_ @elliotthale7 @FAWales That's madness!! I don't actually think the u19s teams would win every game either so not sure why teams are so fearful. Surely you want the league as competitive as possible?! Such a shame for them to not be included and actually for it to be left this late is ludicrous🫠

@elliotthale7 @kirstiekural @FAWales We have had communication from an area association who has explicitly said they will refuse inclusion of the North U19s teams into their league due to “clubs being fearful of the strength of the U19s teams”… All without a ball being kicked. Discrimination due to club colours…

@kirstiekural @FAWales Why we didn’t expect it I dunno, only league really that is left on its arse consistently.

@WirralUnitedFC @NorthWomens @TalkingWoSo @WoSo_Friendlies @ffffinderuk @CheshireWYFL @LiverpoolWYFL @NWwomen_league Just sent a DM 🤝🏼

Our opposition for Sundays Women’s match have unfortunately just pulled out. We are therefore looking for a team to play a friendly against this Sunday, 27th July. Everything is booked and paid for and sorted logistically, we just need a Tier 6 or 7 Opposition now!

@the_nomads Love it @disneyj2 good start 👍🏼

🗣️🎙️ John Disney gives his thoughts following a very positive first pre-season outing as The Nomads ran out 5-2 victors over Mold

Class day with my @the_nomads U19s team at the Northop Women’s Tournament ☀️⚽️ a trophy is always brilliant, but seeing the talent we have ahead of pre-season fills me with a lot of hope for what’s to come 🙌🏼