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New Vale Resort Club Captain Richard Jones Names Friends Of Y Bwthyn As Charity Of Year

Vale Resort Club Captain Richard Jones
New Vale Resort Club Captain Richard Jones has pledged to turn his year-long role into a money-making term for the Y Bwthyn palliative care unit at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. Jones has made a commitment to fundraise for the Friends of Y Bwthyn volunteers who selflessly give up their own time to support the unit in Llantrisant and patients in the community with life-limiting illnesses.

Rob Edwards Claims Championship Clubs Face Financial Chasm As Promoted Trio Get Set To Return

Rob Edwards Luton
Former Wales international pair Rob Edwards and Craig Bellamy are dropping out of the Premier League, with Luton Town boss Edwards admitting it is getting harder for clubs from the Championship to compete. For just the second time in Premier League history all three promoted sides are heading back down to the Championship after a season that has exposed the growing gulf between English football's top two tiers.

Lauren Price Inspires New Fight Plans, More Fans . . . And A Poem

Lauren Price
Lauren Price’s promoter Ben Shalom believes major opportunities await Wales’ new world champion in both welterweight and middleweight divisions. Price has expressed her determination to unify a stacked women’s welterweight division after winning world belts in only her seventh professional fight.

Welsh Rugby Risks Losing Fan Base, Warns Tom Shanklin

Leinster Ospreys
Tom Shanklin has called on the Welsh Rugby Union to show some vision and offer some hope for the future after another bleak weekend for the game in Wales. All four Welsh teams lost in the United Rugby Championship over the weekend – the fifth time this season they have suffered a collective whitewash.

Glamorgan’s Andy Gorvin Vows County Will Build On Overdue Win

Andy Gorvin Glamorgan
Andy Gorvin plans to build on his first five-wicket haul after the Glamorgan bowler inspired the county to their first County Championship win for a year. Glamorgan secured a nine-wicket victory over Sussex at Sophia Gardens with Gorvin starring on his way to career-best figures of five for 40.

New World Champion Lauren Price Targets Unification Fights At Principality Stadium

Lauren Price will target major unification fights against WBO title holder Sandy Ryan and IBF champion Natasha Jones as part of her mission to create a legacy. Price became the first Welsh female boxer to attain world champion status when she claimed the WBA, IBO and Ring Magazine welterweight world title with a comprehensive victory over Jessica McCaskill in Cardiff on Saturday night. Both Ryan and Jones were in attendance and Price can now move forward and target lucrative matches, with the English pair high on her list.

Jessica McCaskill’s Fight Night Menu: Lauren Price, Then Burger And Wings

Boxing
Jessica McCaskill plans to end Lauren Price’s world title dream and taste success again after spoiling herself with a burger and chicken wings during her stay in Cardiff. American veteran McCaskill has put her WBA, IBO and Ring Magazine welterweight world titles on the line as Price attempts to become Wales’ first female boxing champion in just her seventh professional fight.

Newport Bid To Remake History In Welsh Premiership Final Against Llandovery

Indigo Prem final
It has been 20 years since Newport last won what is now the Indigo Premiership title and Ty Morris’ men are 80 minutes away from bridging that gap when they head to Church Bank to face reigning champions Llandovery on their own patch. The ‘Class of 04’ won 27 and drew another of their 30 matches to finish 12 points clear of Neath in the table. Dan Griffiths scored 326 points during the season and Craig Richards scored 30 tries, while Llandovery finished one off the bottom.

Toby Booth Plans Dortmund-Style Determination To Upturn The Form Book

Toby Booth Ospreys
Leinster Rugby v Ospreys, Saturday, 7.35pm. Ospreys coach Toby Booth is calling on his team to draw inspiration from Borussia Dortmund as they take on the Leinster “juggernaut” in Dublin.

Old Wales Mates Craig Bellamy and Rob Edwards Go Toe-To-Toe

Rob Edwards Luton
Two coaches - both former Wales internationals - will walk the Premier League relegation tightrope this weekend, desperate to avoid the drop. Craig Bellamy and Rob Edwards were once Wales teammates, but they are now both fighting for survival on the penultimate weekend of the season.

Merthyr RFC

Ian Evans Takes Joint Charge At Merthyr After Rowland Phillips Departs

Ian Evans has stepped up to become the new joint head coach at Merthyr RFC until the end of the season. The former Wales and Lions second row - who was a regular alongside Alun Wyn Jones during the early part of Jones’ international career - has replaced Rowland Phillips,... Read More

Merthyr Handed Capital Trip As Premiership Prepares To Shrink

Merthyr will have more silverware in mind when they launch the defence of their Principality Premiership crown with a trip to the Arms Park to meet Cardiff on the opening day of the new season. Last season’s league and cup winners are aiming to make it a hat-trick of Premiership... Read More

Merthyr Crush Swansea, But Steelmen Denied In Welsh Prem

There were an amazing 51 tries for fans to savour in the Principality Premiership as the battle for the title got even hotter. The game between Bargoed and Ebbw Vale was abandoned after a spectator collapsed in the crowd during the half-time interval. Referee Dewi Phillips decided to end the game... Read More

Ironmen And Gogs Lead Premiership Charge At Halfway

Merthyr and RGC 1404 will carry the maximum eight points forward into the second phase of the Principality Premiership after they both rounded off the 14-game first phase with victories. Reigning champions Merthyr saw off Bargoed 33-23 at The Wern to beat Pontypridd by two points in the East Division,... Read More

Martyrs And Ironmen March On Together

Football and rugby union are joining forces in Merthyr Tydfil. The Martyrs, a Southern League Premier club, are linking up with Merthyr RFC. It is the first partnership between The Martyrs and The Ironmen and will benefit season ticket holders for both clubs. Any season ticket holder for Merthyr Town will only have... Read More