25 CLUB NEWSLETTER NO 2 2024-2025
Please note that there is a separate 25 Club page on the Llandovery RFC web site with a drop down menu for newsletters. There is also a separate page for match reports. FIRST/LAST TRY COMPETITION The two £50 winners of the second competition of the SRC season, on the occasion of the Llandovery v …
DAI GEALY REMEMBERED AT CHRIST COLLEGE-LLANDOVERY COLLEGE FIXTURE
The 127 th annual game between old rivals Christ College and Llandovery College – once described by legendary Western Mail Sports Editor JBG Thomas as Wales’s own Varsity Match – takes place on Friday October 18th at Tredegar Close, Llandovery (KO 2 30 pm) writes Huw S Thomas. The recent passing of Old Llandoverian David …
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DROVERS TAKE NEWPORT’S UNBEATEN RECORD
NEWPORT 28 LLANDOVERY 30 Llandovery really put the cat amongst the pigeons with this fine, combative win over Newport in front of the S4C cameras writes Huw S Thomas. Few had given them a chance against unbeaten Newport but they played with a confidence, fearlessness and élan that belied their league position. The last time …
25 CLUB NEWSLETTER NO 1 2024-2025
Please note that there is a separate 25 Club page on the Llandovery RFC web site with a drop down menu for newsletters. There is also a separate page for match reports. FIRST/LAST TRY COMPETITION The two £50 winners of the first competition of the SRC season, on the occasion of the Llandovery v …
LLANDOVERY 28 EBBW VALE 31
A crisp autumnal day, the inauguration of the 3G pitch and the Llandovery attempt to defend the innovative Challenge Shield all made for a splendid occasion at Church Bank writes Huw S Thomas The WRU initiative imitates New Zealand’s famous Ranfurly Shield, wherein the “holder”- in this case, Llandovery, as 2023-2024 Premiership champions – put …
Ebbw Vale 38 Llandovery 29
The Drovers could not match Ebbw Vale intensity, both in tight and loose, and went down to their second successive away defeat of the season writes Huw S Thomas They slip down the SRC table to eighth position and after three away games, they will be mightily relieved to be at home this week when …
RGC 28 LLANDOVERY 23
The Drovers went down, three tries to two, against a much improved RGC side in Colwyn Bay to taste their first defeat since sweeping all before them in last season’s Premiership writes Huw S Thomas. They slip into the bottom half of the Super Rygbi Cymru league, their only reward for the long trip to …
Pontypool 18 Llandovery 21
The first game of Wales’s new Super Rygbi Cymru league saw last year’s Premiership champions continue their winning ways but they were taken all the way by a pugnacious and pumped up Pontypool writes Huw S Thomas The Drovers had to come from behind 15-12 and then 18-15 in the second half and owed victory …
LLANDOVERY START THEIR NEW SUPER RYGBI CYMRU CAMPAIGN AT PONTYPOOL
The Drovers open their season in the new Super Rygbi Cymru league with a trip to Pontypool Park on Thursday night writes Huw S Thomas. They did the double over Pontypool last season on their way to take a clean sweep of honours in the Indigo Premiership but will now be the target for all …
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