The dirty dozen !

A great festival of rugby was played against 3 teams from touring team Farnham RFC hosted by South Gower RFC today. Our 'dirty dozen' had plenty of time over 3 games and as many hours to hone their skills with some great weather, fantastic hospitality from S.Gower, and some great skills shown on the pitch. In the words of our own William Wallace".....they can take our tags, but they'll never take our freedom!"

Saturday Apr 9th @ South Gower RFC‏

Please park in Bishopston Primary School car park at 9.30am, Bishopston Road, Bishopston, Swansea, SA3 3EN.

The Farnham coach drivers have been asked to ferry you from the Comprehensive School car park area to the rugby club, so that service is available if you wish to use it. Alternatively the walk to the club is about 3/4 mile from the primary school. If you want to take the coach option, then please could you walk through the school grounds to the comprehensive school car park to get on the coach. If you are unsure of where to go, there will be car park marshalls available to help.

It's your choice to use the school for parking, but there will be a police presence looking to book people on the residential roads after extensive campaigning by locals. You have been warned!

(Please phone/text me to let me know if you are NOT coming on the bus to prevent us waiting around).

Luctonians RFC Tournament

We have been invited to attend a Tournament at Luctonians RFC on Sunday 17th April 2011 - (meet there 10.30am or see below for possible bus option). Can you please indicate your attendance or otherwise using TEAMER a.s.a.p? A failure to use Teamer promptly may prevent formal player registration and resultant 'formal' participation within the tournament (although we will try to give as many players an 'informal' game as we can anyway!). Depending on numbers interested, a bus/coach might be an option for travelling - (meeting @ 07.45am to leave 8am sharp from MRFC). Likely (subsidised) cost will be £10 per bus seat, (which will include return bus travel and player registration fee or spectator entry for 1 accompanying adult). Please reserve any bus spaces required by email to me by 10 April. If travelling by car the fee for entry will be around £5 per head for each player and spectators over 14yrs old. The day will be wrapped up by around 3pm-4pm meaning a return to Mumbles for 6-7pm.

2 for 1 special offer !

This SATURADY 9th April @ 9.30am South Gower RFC then also the day after at 9am on SUNDAY 10th April at Dunvant RFC. (Both clubs will also be hosting a touring team from Farnham who we are also invited to play against). To assist in the pre-organisation of these festivals can you please indicate using TEAMER if you are available for either or both events. Rather than just rely on TEAMER to provide information on time/place, could you please also play your part and either DECLINE or ACCEPT? TEAMER IS FREE ONLINE OR CHARGED AT A STANDARD TEXT MESSAGE RATE USING Y/N TO ACCEPT OR DECLINE ON A MOBILE PHONE. Please don't feel at all pressured to attend either event, but if we know who can / can't attend in advance it would help tremendously. To this end you will have by now received up to 3 TEAMER messages for each of these events (depending if you have responded or not). If you could respond a.s.a.p. then we would be very grateful. Friday training 5.30pm @ Underhill as usual on 8th April this week.

Bryncoch @ Home & TEAMER use

Training 5.30pm @ Park & Bryncoch RFC @ Bishopston 10am for 10.30KO (early for Mother's Day).

With the end of the season around the corner we will be looking to enter some festivals/tournaments rather than just one off games against other clubs. The first of these will possibly take place (depending on numbers interested) at 9.30am South Gower RFC on SATURDAY 9th April and then also the day after on SUNDAY 10th April at Dunvant RFC. Both clubs will also be hosting a touring team from Farnham who we are also invited to play against.

To assist in the pre-organisation of these festivals can you please indicate using TEAMER if you are available for either or both events. Rather than just rely on TEAMER to provide information on time/place, could you please also play your part and either DECLINE or ACCEPT so that I can respond in good time for hosts to source alternative teams if we don't have the numbers interested (i.e. at least a week in advance).

Please don't feel at all pressured to attend either or both matches (if anything it would assist if we could split the squad over the 2 days) - but if I know who can / can't attend in advance it would help tremendously. To this end you will have received 2 TEAMER messages for both these events - if you could respond a.s.a.p. (And by this Sunday 2nd April at the latest) then I'd be very grateful.

Training and more Training this week !

On both Friday 25th March at the Park 5.30pm and 10.30am Sunday 27 March at Bishopston we will have training.

Training @ Park 5.30pm - Sunday 10am @ Swansea Uplands RFC

Training @ Park 18/03/11 5.30pm - Sunday 20/03/11 10am @ Swansea Uplands RFC