Bridgend v Llanelli

Brewery Field Challenge Next

By Kenny | Thursday, 29 December 2011

After our super win at St Helen’s against the All Whites last Tuesday our next game in the Principality Premiership will be at the Brewery Field where will take on newly promoted Bridgend RFC. The game will kick off at the usual time of 2.30pm on Bank Holiday Monday 2ND January 2012.

Having secured some very good wins recently in the league we now sit in fifth spot going into the new year. January will be another big month for us, we have away fixtures in both league and Cup so the squad will be tested to the full over the coming weeks.

It’s good to have Bridgend back in the fold as it were. After a couple of seasons in Div’n 1 West, they secured promotion this year with a play-off win against Glamorgan Wanderers and have done very well so far this season. They sit just below us in the league and have already shown that they will be tough to beat on their own patch having secured wins against Neath, Swansea, Cross Keys and Newport. Their last scheduled game on Boxing Day at Tonmawr was called off a little more than half an hour before kick off much to their frustration, so they will be even keener to take us on and make a massive statement by securing a win against the current Champions.

I took a quick look through the archives to see when we last played in the league at the Brewery Field. It was on 25th Oct 2008, that day we came away with a hard fought victory by 25 – 18. Included in our team that day were a number of household names who have really gone on to bigger and better things – the team was

Ian Jones, Craig Hawkins, Aled Hopkins, Adam Powell, Aaron Shingler, Josh Turnbull, Nick Cudd, Dan Godfrey

Gareth Davies, Rhys Priestland, Nick Jones, Matthew Brayley, Nic Reynolds, Matthew Jacobs , Dan Newton

Bench was
Simon Gardiner, Ricky Guest, Shaun Hopkins, Luke Jones, Justin Jones, Luke Richards, Andrew Banfield.

It certainly goes to show that playing at Premiership level provides fantastic opportunities for anyone who puts in the hard yards – some team eh!!

Anyway, I’m sure we’ll all receive a good welcome at the Brewery Field so as it’s the last day of the Christmas/New Year holiday break why not come along to catch some Premiership action – it promises to be a super game.


Other fixtures on the day include

Aberavon v Pontypridd

Cardiff v Newport

Cross Keys v Bedwas

Pontypool v Llandovery

Swansea v Carm Quins

Tonmawr v Neath

TonduTurk wrote:    Their last scheduled game on Boxing Day at Tonmawr was called off a little more than half an hour before kick off much to their frustration,

bridgend phoned tonmawr at 1pm and were told the game was on and when they arrived the pitch was totally unplayable and the game was called off.

they've done this to us as well (amongst other things). i hope they are made to forfeit the game, and i wont be sorry to see them relegated.

Wil Chips wrote: I thought Owen Williams went about his business in a neat and tidy way against the Whites last week. Couple of nice passes to put people in for tries.

he's a good player, reminds me of rhys priestland.

Llanelli RFC Team v Bridgend RFC AWAY

PRINCIPALITY PREMIERSHIP

Monday 2/1/12 k.off 2:30pm


15.Jordan Williams 14.Iolo Evans 13.Nic Reynolds 12.Johnny Lewis 11.Lee Williams 10.Owen Williams 9.Justin James

1.Shaun Hopkins 2.Kirby Myhill 3.Simon Gardiner 4.Adam Powell (c) 5.Nathan White 6.Craig Price 7.Duane Eager 8.Mat Gilbert.

Replacements/Subs

16.Aled Hopkins 17.David Littlehales 18.Ed Price 19.Daniel Thomas 20. Morgan Haylock 21.Diggy Bird 22.Bowdy Davies

Good team that. Tempted to go to Bridgend

Im going to this. Might see you there Morgan ?? 

LLANDRE wrote: Im going to this. Might see you there Morgan ??

You travelling from the west or the east?

Fixtures been switched home game now in February .