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Rhydian and Aled Davies have both
played for Llangadog and Rhydian,
recently speaking to Rugby Club
Magazine about their positive
association with the club saying, “My
career was fairly short lived with a
cruciate injury however I have always
remained close to the club and my
brother Aled played inside centre
for many years. It is easy to enjoy
the club because they have such a
good group of guys down there and
this season could see them go all
the way. My company has sponsored
the club for around 10 years now and
I like to help out when I can. I wish
everyone continued success for the
rest of the season.”
20 odd years, with the addition
of a few younger recruits (our
future). While still playing, I
had the honour of being asked
to be Chairman.
I have a lot of fantastic
memories of my time at the
club, but my favourite has to be
the time when we had a season
or two struggling to field a
full 15 side, week in week
out, due to injuries and player
recruitment. We would never
call off a game, and would play
with 12, 13, 14 men.
This particular Saturday, our
fixture was an away league
game to Penlan RFC (Swansea
); we were holding up the
bottom of the table, and Penlan
were top, it was in the last
month of the season, Penlan
were a good side, and very
physical and brutal, for some
reason or other, we had a lot
of players pulling out, due to
weddings, funerals, injury,
being abducted by aliens etc.
We didn’t want to call off the
game, so we rounded up a lot
of our veterans, these guys
hadn’t played for a number
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of years, and the only exercise
they had was lifting pints of
beer, nearly everyone in the
team was over 40, pushing 45.
It was a tough, brutal game,
and unbelievably we won, I
have never played in a team,
which had as much passion
and heart and a will to win
against all odds, as that day, a
truly very special memory.
We are on a good run at the
moment and the mood here
is electric. The good form is
down to a few new recruits this
season, which strengthened
the squad, good coaching, and
the on/off field camaraderie
between the players. We hope
to finish in the top three,
hopefully on top of the pile.
Our clubhouse has lots of
favourable comments from
visiting teams, we are always
working on it, keeping it up
together, our changing rooms
and wc’s are on the ground
floor, while upstairs, we have
a bar, lounge, and eating area,
which leads to a very large
balcony, which is very close to
the pitch, so has a great view.