Waunarlwydd RFC

Waunarlwydd RFC
Full name Waunarlwydd Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s) The Waun Massive
Founded 1900(c)
Location Waunarlwydd, Wales
Ground(s) Waunarlwydd Recreation Ground (Capacity: 84000)
Chairman Andrew Wedlake
Coach(es) Gaffa “Dan George’s biggest fan”. Evs the bear. Some guy who sells coffee and does Baldwin’s laces up, Gatch. Mandy Cleary
Captain(s) Turkish
League(s) WRU Division One West Central
2017-18 Not Top
Team kit
Official website
www.waunarlwyddrfc.org.uk

Waunarlwydd Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in the village of Waunarlwydd, Swansea. Waunarlwydd are a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and are a feeder club for the Ospreys.[1]

Formed in 1900 the club celebrated its centenary with a tour to Prague in the Czech Republic.

The club runs teams at all ages between Under 8 and Under 16, a youth section consisting of under 17's and under 19's, seniors, veterans and women's teams. Waunarlwydd currently plays in the WRU Division One West following promotion from WRU Division Two West in the 2009/2010 season. It is the club's second spell in Division One; they originally attained promotion following the 2004/2005 season before being relegated at the end of the 2007/2008 season.

Club history

Waunarlwydd RFC was formed in 1900 and originally played on what is now the Common at Mynydd Bach Y Glo. The team changed at the Arcade, this being the name of the building on the corner of Swansea Road and Bryn Road. There were no club colours and players provided their own jerseys, whatever the colour. In 1908 Waunarlwydd played in a Championship final at St. Helen's. Their opponents were Baycliff, a team from the Sandfields area a match which saw Waunarlwydd have eight players sent off.[2]

The club tasted their first championship success in season 1921-1922 when they won the Third Division Championship of the Swansea & District Rugby Union. In 1933 made its first application for membership of the Welsh Rugby Union. The team won the Swansea and District Rugby Union league and cup double in the 1950/51 season.

In the 1984/85 season the 'green and blacks' reached the West Wales Cup Final following victories against Ystradgynlais, Tumble and Seven Sisters in the preceding rounds. Waunarlwydd RFC met, and lost to, Carmarthen Athletic in the final.

Past Players

Liam San-Jay Williams - Scarlets, Wales. Nicky Smith - Ospreys, Wales. Scott Otten - Ospreys. Matthew Protheroe - Gloucester. England Elite 18, 20'S. Nicky Thomas - Gloucester. Dai Watts - Swansea Rfc Jonny “one knee lewis” Lewis - Can’t drink for toffee. Rhys 4ce - better than Seeley. Raul - His Mrs tugged off one of the boys at the bar.

Current squad

Alex Tregembo Honey I shrunk the wing

Player Position Player Position Andrew Cubby Lloyd Hooker/Prop Tom Eaton Left back in the changing rooms
Rhys Mango Cherry Hooker Sam Fatty Pridge Wing/tighthead
Mike Maddocks Hooker Lee Brooks Hooker
Steff Turkish Jones No 8
Nick Clous Jones Fly Half/ Scrum Half
Chris Seeley Prop Dan Fox Fly Half/ Center
Ryan Porter Prop Jonny Lewis Fly Half/ Center
Dan Mental Moyle Lock/ loose head Jay Williamson at the bar
Rob Bagley Lock Dai Evans Center
Jamie Rose Lock
Simon Evans Lock Adam Mort with his mrs
Shane Harris Center
Daryll Moore Lock Tom Wedlake A+E
Dan Joseph Flanker Gretchy KFC
Sion Evans

Ask Hannah

Callum Owen Center/ wing
Alan Pope Wing
Nathan Hart Drum Leighton Lamb Wing/Scrum Half
James Cleary Flanker Rhodri Williams Dong
Mike Nelly Lewis Flanker
Joel Young Flanker
Rhys Satts Wing
Craig Spaz Jenkins Smack head
Lee Evans Full back/ Scrum Half

References

  1. ↑ BBC News (2004-07-08). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  2. ↑ Waunarlwydd RFC 1900-1975 compiled by Eldred Bayliss and Howard George (1975)
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