LIBERTY STADIUM 25/09/10 - (meet outside the Osprey shop at 6.00pm - K.O. 6.30pm)

The team (picked on attendance from last season) to face Cwmtwch at the Liberty Stadium is:-

1. Mats Pelders

2. Georgia Davies

3. Ruben Vincent

4. Joseph Broad

5. Sam Ace

6. Ewan Rees

7. Kieran O'Shea

8. Evan Thomas

9. Jack Cawsey Williams

10. Harrison Ward

A curtain raiser at St Helens for Swansea v Pontypridd will be played on 12/11/10 for those not named above.

TICKETS:- An unlimited number of discounted tickets have been ordered for all Mumbles RFC members to purchase either in person at the Liberty Stadium ticket office or by telephone on 01792 616508. They will be reserved for you to collect until 2 days before the match to guarantee being with the team in the ground. Please ask for Rhodri Wells and make him aware you are with Mumbles RFC and would like the discounted tickets: Adults (£10), Children (£1) - (players named above will be permitted entrance for free.) Tickets can also be purchased on the day for this discounted price, however your location adjacent to the team in the ground cannot be guaranteed.

DIRECTIONS:-

http://www.liberty-stadium.com/stadium_information_swansea.php

Despite being a competative knock out tounament, the event is primarily about having fun and enjoying the atmosphere (irrespective of the result) - please emphasise this and not the importance of winning to your children. The game will last 7 mins in total, so don't blink !

Gowerton (AWAY) 19/09/10

A 3 way round robin of matches today with Penclawdd and Dunvant was a great success enabling everyone to have plenty of time and opportunity to get stuck in.

Next week it's our old friend Gowerton (AWAY).

Click on this link for directions - (meet at 10.30am for an 11.oo K.O). http://www.gowertonrfc.co.uk/contactus/

Lougher & Neath played and Penclawdd 'Donkeys' next up

A fantastic job was done by Phil and Lee today (no doubt ably assisted by our ever growing coaching team) in satisfying our equally ever expanding and sizeable squad by playing a triangular set of matches with Lougher and Neath. Training will be 5pm at Underhill again this week with Penclawydd hosted at Bishopston on Sunday 12th - 10.30am. Back to the Rugby Club for hot dogs at 12pm.

A massive thank you also to Sam Ward-Jones and Tracy Caplin who along with Tracy Price (from the Predators) faced the trials and tribulations of the Mumbles RFC kitchen. We hope to have catering volunteers from the Wildcats next week when we host Penclawdd at the rugby club(12pm), but there will be plenty of further opportunity through the remainder of the season for other Vikings parents to put up their hands and be counted in the kitchen, so please don't be shy - our hot dogs need you!

WANTED - volunteers required for the new seasons catering rota.

Would the first willing parents who are back to the club please empty a tin of 50 (club supplied) hot dogs into a pan to warm. If you feel you also have the necessarily skills and experience to purchase and cut open a few bread rolls then please put yourself forward to me for entry on our rota (see page to the right of blog).

If those named on the rota can please purchase bread rolls themselves in advance, then all monies can be refunded on presentation of a receipt. Usually 48 rolls will feed our players, opposition (but please double check in each instance since we may share the rota with other teams).

September 3rd & 5th

Friday 3rd Sept - Training 5pm with Phil 'Teach' Jones at Underhill.

We then host Lougher RFC at Bishopston School on Sunday 5th Sept' - meet in time to kit up and sort out teams for a 10.30 k.o. Back to the Rugby Club for hot dogs at 12pm.

Volunteers are needed again this season to purchase the bread rolls and warm up the club supplied hot dogs. I can reimburse the cost of the rolls on presentation of a receipt.

Inaugural Family Funday a resounding success !

A big thank you must go to Gowerton RFC and to Jonathan Thomas and Alun Wyn Jones for attending our first ever Mumbles RFC Family Funday to make it such a success. The day was very well attended and proved that it has a big future in years to come. Mark it in your diary for next year!

VIKINGS MEMBERSHIP NOW DUE

Please ensure your £42 Vikings membership is paid a.s.a.p. (this includes a £25 players membership and a discounted £30 family membership of Mumbles RFC).

We are limited by the WRU to a maximum of 25 registered players.

Please therefore be aware that if your membership remains unpaid on 15th Ocotber 2010, then your registered playing place may be offered to others in waiting and only a non-playing family membership of Mumbles RFC will then be available.