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67 Sports Town boys represent Wales Game changers appointed
(L-R): WRU game changers Lauren Thomas, Dave Roberts and Katy Evans
TWO Carmarthen Town players
were part of the Wales School Boys U18 side that played against Australia School Boys U18 at Cardiff Met's ground on Thursday, January 19. Wales won the game 7-4 and
current Carmarthen Town Players Iwan Roberts and Liam Testino Lee were both in the squad for the game.
Iwan is currently the First Team
back up and development keeper, while Liam Testino Lee has just re-signed for Carmarthen Town’s Development squad. Well done to both players and to
Jon Garcia, Assistant Manager for the Welsh team and Carmarthen’s Academy Director.
Cup semi-finals announced TENBY UNITED will play
Whitland in the semi-finals of this season’s Pembrokeshire KO Cup. The other semi-final sees a
Ceredigion derby, with Cardigan taking on Aberystwyth. Ties are set to be played before
March 31. A date and venue for the final will be confirmed once the semi- finals have been completed. Aberystwyth made it to this stage following a 27-15 win away to
Fishguard in the quarter-finals. Tenby United thrashed Aberaeron
50-8 in their quarter-final tie after beating Pembroke 26-19 in the first round.
Cardigan beat St Davids 65-0 in
the first round and went on to beat Neyland 28-12 in the quarter-finals. Whitland were given a walk over
in the first round against Pembroke Dock Quins and are yet to play a game in the competition.
New cup competition proposed THERE could soon be a new
rugby cup competition involving sides from Division 3 West A if plans and proposed fixtures are approved. The tournament has been proposed
by the Pembroke Dock Harlequins and would feature two groups of four teams.
The teams would play each other home and away in their groups and the
two group winners will then meet in the final.
Proposals and fixtures will be
discussed at the next meeting of the Pembrokeshire district at the beginning of February. If approved, the tournament would
begin after the current league season is completed.
Seaside secure comprehensive win SEASIDE took on Penllergaer on
Saturday (Jan 21) in what proved to be a convincing 4–1 win for Seaside. Seaside took an early lead after
just four minutes when Ben Honeybun dispossessed the Tumble centre half and slotted home from the edge of the box. Building on their positive start,
Seaside doubled their lead on 14 minutes when a cross from the right was cleared only as far as the edge of the box, where Callum Thomas was on hand to volley into the top corner.
remaining, Seaside restored their two goal cushion after a through ball from Jack Watkins found Nathan Lewis, who netted in the top corner. With the pressure off, Leon Goddard
wrapped up the scoring (and the three points for Seaside) with a fine finish from 20 yards.
THREE individuals have been
appointed to radically increase and improve rugby opportunities across the grassroots end of the game for women and girls. The aptly named ‘game changers’
for North Wales, South East and South West Wales will work with all areas of the WRU rugby department, along with clubs, schools and hub officers, to increase the number of women and girls regularly involved in Welsh rugby – and improve the rugby products on offer for the Welsh female population. UsGirls Project of the Year
Award winner Lauren Thomas takes up the West Wales role, former Welsh Gymnastics South East Wales Club Development Officer Katy Evans has landed the East Wales position and former Newtown school club hub officer Dave Roberts has been
appointed to make a difference for women and girls in the North Wales Development Region. WRU Women and Girls manager
Caroline Spanton said: “These three high calibre individuals will have the challenge of taking women and girls rugby participation in Wales to the next level. We know there is huge demand for rugby by women and girls from the success of the first season of cluster centres, when participation levels doubled but we also know there is massive scope to become one of, if not the top female participation sport in Wales. “There is a blank canvas for the
game changers in many ways and the sky is the limit in terms of where the roles take us as a national sport. We will need to make some brave decisions to reach our aspirations of making it the norm for women
and girls to be involved in rugby but with this team now on board, I know we can do this.” WRU Head of Rugby
Participation Ryan Jones added: “It is a strategic priority for us as a Union to become more attractive to women and girls and to remove barriers to enable anyone to participate. “Our purpose is to enable more
people to be involved in rugby more often, with more enjoyment and more success and it is therefore vital to invest in people whose job and sole focus will be to make this a firm reality. We all need to work together with the game changers to ensure we offer various forms of the game and a way of delivering rugby which appeals to women and girls of all ages.”
Women’s Six Nations squad named WALES WOMEN have today
announced their 32-player squad for the upcoming Women’s Six Nations. Head coach Rowland Phillips
finalised his selection after yesterday’s victory against Ireland at Donnybrook – a result which means Wales Women have now won four from four since Phillips took charge in 2016. Phillips says that cutting down
10 minutes into the second half,
Penllergaer got themselves back in the match at 2-1 after a mistake in the Seaside defence. However, with just five minutes
a squad of approximately 50 players was a difficult task. “It’s always tough when it comes to selections, because everybody has been working so hard over the past few months,” he said. “There were plenty of tough calls, but I’m confident of the process we went through to get to this point.” Included in the squad are players
recently identified in the regional programme, such as forwards Morfudd Ifans, Brea Leung and Gwenllian Pyrs, whilst players returning to the set- up after a short break include centre Rebecca de Filippo and front row
Lowri Harries. Since the autumn, Wales Women
have recorded wins against Scotland, the UK Armed Forces, Spain and Ireland. Whilst he is pleased with the results on the scoreboard, Phillips insists that he and his assistant coaches, Nick Wakely and Paul Young, have been focused on improving the team’s overall performance. “We’re fully aware of what the
past four games have been about,” says Phillips. “The results are an added bonus. The real thing for us was for the players to understand the physicality and intensity of top teams, and they certainly experienced it yesterday against Ireland.” Ireland, ranked fifth in the world,
gave Wales Women plenty to think about, according to Phillips: “They are a quality side, with a lot of very good players. The first 25 minutes or so we were completely under the cosh. But what evolved after that was that we got
to terms with the intensity, and by the end of the game we were comfortably playing at that level.” Now Phillips wants his squad to
focus on the next challenge – 'with feet firmly on the ground' – with Wales set to face Italy away first up in the Women’s Six Nations. Supporters can then look forward to two huge home matches at the BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park against England (February 11) and Ireland (March 11) – something Phillips expects to be a fantastic occasion in the capital. “Those two home games are
significant for us as far as standard of opposition goes,” he said. “We’re hosting the world champions and Ireland, who showed us yesterday what a threat they are across the park. It’s going to be a huge competition for us, and we saw throughout the autumn how big a difference the home support made.”
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