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Rugby Club Magazine recently caught up with Rob Lewis an ex
player and long-standing supporter and sponsor of Aberdare
RFC with his business WD Lewis who told us, ““I suppose
I’ve been involved from playing school rugby with my friends,
we naturally progressed to our local rugby club when I was
16 years old. My main playing position was scrum half and I
played up until injury took its toll. After a few years away from
playing I returned to enjoy more social Rugby. Over the years I
have been involved with our mini junior section, an area where
thankfully the club is holding its own.
The weather has caused a lot of disruptions this season and
competing in a league where many clubs are strong defensively
it is going to certainly offer us challenges on the journey and in
our ambition to win the league. Although we have won all our
games to date some of those have been quite close encounters
however when the lads are on their game I can’t see many teams
beating us. My son Daniel is still club captain and enjoying
the great team spirit which he believes will take them to new
heights this season!
Our new head coach has built on our previous team and we
now have half a dozen key players, in the forwards and backs,
who are rising to the challenge leaving us with a very exciting
squad. I have to say that the moral of our boys is excellent and
the mood has still remained high even in the tougher fixtures
we have played in. I can only urge everyone at Aberdare RFC
for more of the same positive attitude as we enter our final
matches and with everyone behind the squad we have a great
chance of making 2019/2020 season a historic one!”
Rugby Club Magazine caught up with club Captain Daniel
Lewis who has been with the club since his junior rugby days.
He told us, “We have a really good blend of older and younger
players which seems to be giving us an edge this season. Since
we last spoke a few seasons back the team has certainly matured
and grown together. I’m not certain but I think if we win the
league we would then make club history by being promoted to
our highest ever league.
As club captain this would be a great recognition of our team
and of course the commitment they continue to show. With
great backs and an ambitious group of forwards we can be a
hard team to beat and we have also got accustomed to grinding
a win out when we have to. I would just ask the team to pick
up from where we have left off and if we show the same level of
commitment for each other then the title is firmly in our own
hands!
Best wishes to everyone for the remainder of the season!”
occasions which is usually the way
it goes when you’re winning. It is
important to say that the previous
coaching group also did a very good
job and we’ve got an exciting group
of young players here now who have
come through our youth section.” now with a very young first team.
We believe that that is the right way
to go and will continue to focus on
this area in the coming years with
the hope that more young players
will continue to come through the
ranks.”
Youth 2020
“Mark Stephens heads up the
youth section here at the club and
they have done a fantastic job of
bringing young players through. We
have had teams running for at least
ten years from U7s to U16s and are
starting to see the benefits of that “The obvious aim for the rest
of this season is to try and win
promotion. We’ve put ourselves in
a fantastic position to get promotion
to Division 1. We certainly feel as
a club that we have the personnel
to take us into that league and
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then be competitive when we get
there. We’ve built the strength in
depth at the club so it would be
disappointing now if we are not able
to get promoted. There’s a long way
to go and we know how difficult it
will be but promotion is what we
are targeting. The league above is
a little more physical so it will be
important to cope with that but we
are confident in our players ability to
do so.”
Challenges
“The biggest challenges over
the next five years will always