nantyffyllon
Thomas and Ajay Sharma which makes us stronger than we
have been for many a year.”
sure it will become a very popular venue in the upper Llynfi
valley.”
Youth
Ambitions
“Youth rugby is enormously important to us and it only shows
with the success of both our senior teams this year, that to be
successful you have to run a youth side, also it must be fed by a
strong junior section, I’m sure that our club is the envy of all the
others in the district.
It has been hard work and special mentions must go to brothers
Mathew and Geraint Williams who have run our youth from
the beginning, till nowadays, and to Archie our Head Youth
Coach, who have seen us evolve from a side who drove around
picking players off the street to field a team and only winning
one or two games a season, to now becoming one of the top
youth teams in Wales, a fantastic achievement.”
“On field we have to gain promotion to at least Division One,
we have as I said some fantastic talent coming through our
ranks and our shop window will always be our first fifteen and
if we want to hold on to these youngsters and stop the poaching
I mentioned earlier then this has to be our goal.
Otherwise all the effort and commitment put in to develop
these players will be wasted as other clubs will see the benefit of
all our hard work. Off field we have a massive project to manage
and make sure our COMMUNITY CLUB becomes exactly that,
and we will be looking to employ someone to make sure that
the facility incorporates the whole valley.”
Potential
“There is immense talent throughout the youth and lower age
groups but I’m not going to mention individuals (of whom I’m
sure four of them will make it to regional level) purely because
the parasites from higher level clubs will come in and sweet
talk players to move and then not give them the game time they
need to improve to make it at the highest level.
We have had it for the past couple of seasons and it galls me
when the so called amateur clubs offer payment to poach our
quality players. Don’t get me wrong, no one would be more
proud than myself to see a Nanty prodigy playing Premiership
level or higher and we would send them with our blessing, but
when a division two side poach your players with money it’s
hard to bear.”
Community
“I know lots of other clubs say this, but we truly are the Heart
of the Nantyffyllon community, and you can be assured that the
new development will be used by the whole of the community,
young and old. We currently have a choir, skittles teams, football
teams, cricket teams, dart and pool teams as well as the 12 rugby
teams all using our club as a base and we are committed to our
partnerships with local schools and clubs to provide a first class
venue for all types of activities. We are providing a fitness suite,
a boxing gym and an Indoor barn in the new facility and I’m
“I know lots of
other clubs say
this, but we truly
are the Heart of
the Nantyffyllon
community.”
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