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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.

Llandovery

Page-Turner . . . Macs Provides Max Value To Llandovery Title Bid

Llandovery are the best rugby team in Wales outside of the regional structure and they can prove that status once more this weekend. With none of the four regions in action – having long ago departed the scene of European competition – it gives a welcome opportunity in Wales to... Read More

Drovers Skipper Jack Jones Backs Llandovery To Rumble On To Premiership Triumph

Llandovery skipper Jack Jones claims the Drovers have their sights firmly set on retaining their Indigo Premiership title as they head into Saturday’s play-off semi-final showdown against Cardiff at Church Bank (5.15pm kick off). Coach Euros Evans’ men made history by finishing top of the Premiership standings for the first... Read More

Neath Issue Barbed Congratulations To Cardiff After Nigel Walker Declares EDC Verdict

Neath have reacted badly to being beaten by Cardiff to the remaining place in the planned new 10-team Elite Domestic Competition – appearing to suggest the Welsh Rugby Union came to a biased judgement. The decision by the WRU to add Cardiff to the list has brought an end to... Read More

Max Boyce Leads Glynneath Invasion Of The Capital

Max Boyce will lead a Glynneath invasion of the Principality Stadium this weekend – when the only thing still left standing in the village will be the statue to the great man himself. Rugby’s most famous bard will be at the head of 16-strong unit of coaches heading for Cardiff... Read More

Pontypool Chase Premiership Play-Off Spot

The play-offs are back within the sights of Pontypool after they defeated the side currently occupying fourth spot in the Indigo Premiership. Pooler’s timely 20-13 triumph over Cardiff at Pontypool Park completed a notable league double for Leighton Jones’ men over the Blue and Blacks to close the gap and... Read More

Calling Cardiff RFC: Please Come To The WRU Party

The Welsh Rugby Union are... Read More
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