Please note that there is a separate 25 Club page on the Llandovery RFC web site with a dropdown menu for newsletters. There is also a separate page for match reports.
1) FIRST/LAST TRY COMPETITION
The two £50 winners of the eleventh competition of the SRC season, on the occasion of
the Llandovery v Ebbw Vale game, were Jonathan Davies who benefitted from a try by scrum half Lee Rees (9) and Robin Barlow with a late try from Osian Davies (6).
The next competition will be on Saturday April 5 when Aberavon are the visitors to
Church Bank in a league game.
2) HOSPITALITY
Mark your note book, the end of season Gala Dinner will take place on Friday 23 May 2025. More details to follow
3) COMPETITION WINNERS
- i) John and Menna Davies were the winners of the quiz in the book Blwyddyn Bythgofiadwy – A Chronicle of an Unforgettable Season and their prize is an invitation for four to the all-
inclusive 25 Club Gala dinner on May 23.
- ii) The Six Nations Forecast competition had an exciting end with no fewer than eight entrants tied on 7/10, before Leon Clement was declared the winner of the £200 prize
With Derek Jones, Janet Thomas, Sandra Clarke, Robin Barlow, Leon Clement, Barry Clement, Mike Gibbons of Tywyn and Nigel Penn of Harpenden all on 7/10, the tie breaker had to be used to find the winner.
The tie breaker involved naming the total number of points scored by Wales over the five games.
Wales scored 76 points in their five matches and predictions were as follows
Leon Clement 77 (-1), Robin Barlow 78 (-2), Janet Thomas 85 (-9), Barry Clement 67 (-9), Derek Jones 88 (-12), Sandra Clarke 91 (-15), Nigel Penn 95 (-19), Mike Gibbons 108 (-32)
Scoring details /10
SIX NATIONS WINNERS: FRANCE (3 points)
WALES FINISHING POSITION: 6TH (2 points)
TOP POINTS SCORER: ANY OTHER PLAYER (BEN THOMAS WITH 18 POINTS) (2 points)
NUMBER OF RED CARDS: FOUR – Ntamack, Ringrose, Vintcent, Nicotera – (2 points)
NUMBER OF DROP GOALS: NONE (1 POINT)
TIE BREAKER, NUMBER OF WELSH POINTS: 76
4) DRAGONBET
Bookmakers Dragonbet (dragonbet.co.uk) offered odds on the Llandovery v Ebbw Vale
Game.
They gave the Steelmen a 4 points handicap start over the Drovers.
Llandovery won by an astonishing 32 points so a number of 25 Club members had pockets stuffed with notes on Thursday night.
5) DISCOUNT
On production of their membership card, 25 Club members can take advantage of a
10% discount when eating in at The West End Café.
6) SRC RESULTS
SRC CUP FINAL: LLANDOVERY 39 EBBW VALE 7
SRC LEAGUE: PONTYPOOL 42 CARMARTHEN QUINS 17
Super Rygbi Cymru table as at March 23 2025
| TEAM | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | T | TA | TB | LB | PTS |
| Cardiff | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 467 | 291 | 176 | 71 | 37 | 11 | 7 | 62 |
| Ebbw Vale | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 400 | 265 | 135 | 51 | 34 | 9 | 8 | 57 |
| Llandovery | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 422 | 344 | 78 | 55 | 43 | 9 | 6 | 55 |
| Newport | 14 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 409 | 330 | 79 | 60 | 44 | 9 | 5 | 50 |
| Pontypool | 14 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 420 | 389 | 31 | 58 | 53 | 9 | 4 | 45 |
| Bridgend Ravens | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 350 | 431 | -81 | 50 | 57 | 9 | 6 | 35 |
| RGC 1404 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 381 | 470 | -89 | 44 | 65 | 4 | 2 | 30 |
| Aberavon | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 323 | 330 | -7 | 45 | 48 | 6 | 8 | 30 |
| Carmarthen Quins | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 302 | 436 | -134 | 40 | 63 | 5 | 5 | 26 |
| Swansea | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 269 | 457 | -188 | 35 | 65 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
7) LIST OF FIRST/LAST TRY COMPETITION WINNERS (2024-2025) AFTER
ROUND 11 (in bold)
1 ANTHONY BARRY (£50)
2 HUW S THOMAS
3 NIGEL CLARKE (£50)
4 GARETH DYLAN
5 DEREK JONES (£50)
6 ROBIN BARLOW (£50)
7 ROY DAVIES
8 GARETH M JONES (£50)
9 JONATHAN DAVIES (£50)
10 TONY WILLIAMS
11 PHIL RATCLIFFE (£200)
12 WYN MORGAN
13 PAUL ADAMS (£100)
14 ROB HUNT (£200)
15 KATHRYN DAVIES (£100)
16 HOWARD POTTER (£50)
17 JOHN ASHCROFT
18 MARK VINCE
19 GERI DAVIES (£50)
20 DAN JONES
21 ROB SALT
22 DAI THOMAS (£50)
23 MICKEY GOUGH
24 (PEN TRY) MARGARET DAVIES (£50)
25 (NO TRY OR JUST THE ONE TRY) STEVE LOCK
Total winnings paid out after the 10th round: £1100
The competition will run throughout the season at all home SRC league and cup games.
Competition rules
Automatic entry into a members only prize competition at all home league and cup
games.
NB The inclusion of home cup games is an extra benefit for season 2024-2025
Two prizes of £50 per game for a) first Llandovery try scorer b) last Llandovery try scorer.
Members will be allocated a club number between 1 and 25 corresponding to a
Llandovery match day shirt, plus a penalty try category (24) and no try category (25).
The no try category will come into force if no try has been scored or if there is just one
Llandovery try in the whole game.
Prize awarded immediately post match if member is in attendance at Church Bank.
Otherwise payment will be made in the week following the game.
A member will keep the same number throughout that entire season.
Huw S Thomas for the “25” club 23/03/2025