CARDIFF V EBBW VALE Saturday 23rd September 2017 2.30pm KO. £2 GREAT MOVES START WITH US Buying the right home takes a team. Chat with our mortgage experts today. Principality. Where home matters. www.principality.co.uk/mortgages YOUR HOME MAY BE REPOSSESSED IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP REPAYMENTS ON YOUR MORTGAGE. ONLINE @principalityBS CALL US BRANCH principality.co.uk Principality Building Society 0330 333 4000• Pop in to see us • To help us maintain our service and security standards, telephone calls may be monitored and recorded. Principality Building Society is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority, reference number 155998. Principality Building Society, Principality Buildings, Queen Street, Cardiff, CF10 1UA. principality.co.uk WELCOME Welcome to the Arms Park for this afternoon’s Principality Premiership game between Cardiff and Ebbw Vale. Four games into the season and four wins on the board following last weekend’s six try victory over Cross Keys. The game really was split into two halves. The first full of mistakes from both teams with only one try from the home side going in a point behind. The second half saw a change of fortunes as the Blue & Black dominated. Ben Thomas on his first full start for Cardiff pulled the strings and the team responded with five second half tries, including a rare sight here- a push over try. Rhys Carre was deservedly named as Man of the Match. Steve Law and the coaching team have certainly got the team going in the right direction. He faces some welcome headaches in the coming weeks with players like Dan Crimmins, Miles Normandale, James Murphy, James Sheekey up front and Jack Phillips, Adam Jones and James Beal in the backline coming back into reckoning for selection following injuries. It is a nice problem to have. Our visitors today will pose new questions for the Blue & Blacks, in fact the last victory against the Steelmen was in 2010, and that is the last victory either home or away. Ebbw have traditionally been challenging at the top of the league for the last few seasons and they will be keen to extend their winning run over the Blue & Blacks. Their season hasn’t started as well as they would have liked. A win against Bargoed in the first game of the season has been followed by three defeats, the last against Newport a last minute defeat. That doesn’t mean that this will make them any easier to beat. Despite a few players retiring and moving onto to other clubs the Steelmen will have a strong determination to show what the men from the top of the Gwent Valley are capable of. So we look forward to a challenging game and welcome the players, coaching staff, committee and supporters to the Arms Park this afternoon. Enjoy the rugby! COMMITTEE Committee Members: Head Coach: PROGRAMME Chairman: David Allen Steve Law Media: Chris Norman Brian Bennett Backs Coach: Ian Tabor Vice Chairman: Chris Collins Llyr Lane Design: Simon Down Clive Davies Forwards Coach: ZAP! Creative Treasurer: Adrian Hadley Neil Edwards Photography: Marc Wakeham Ian Tabor Asst Coach: Viv Jones Secretary: John Huw Williams James Dixon Produced by: Jill Parker Billy Woods Team Manager: HUSH Iestyn Williams The views expressed in this program Physiotherapy: are not necessarily those of Cardiff Dyfri Owen RFC TOGETHER we will ALL ACHIEVE www.cardiffrfc.com #BLUEANDBLACKS LAST TIME OUT Cardiff 46 Cross Keys 19 Cardiff ran in six tries against Cross Keys to keep the unbeaten record this season intact. The Blue & Blacks came out of the blocks as fast as they had the previous week. The forwards were doing the hard work and gaining the hard yards before they released the backline. Ben Thomas, making his first start for the home side, made a sublime break before timing his pass to Will Rees-Hole who scored under the sticks. Thomas added the extras. The game then seemed to drift for ten minutes as both sides made a series of mistakes when in good position to get the scoreboard moving. Eventually the Keys did get on the board. The visitors were awarded a scrum in the twenty-two after a knock on and from the set-piece a simple scissors move put Barney Nightingale through a slack Cardiff defence to score. Josh Prosser, who had earlier missed two penalty kicks at goal, landed the conversion. And the Keys went ahead after another Cardiff mistake. This time a forward rumble ended with hooker Robert Jones going over under the posts. Cardiff got back to within a point just before half time with two Thomas penalties but the half time talk would have been all about cutting out the errors. And they did just that straight from the kick off. Rhys Carre carried the ball up field as he had all the first half but this time when the ball came to Thomas he again created a hole to cruise through and when he only had the full back to beat he found support from Lewis Jones on his shoulder to score. Thomas added the conversion, but couldn’t land the touchline conversion of Owen Lane’s try that had been created by a Jack Roberts break before feeding the wing to score. TOGETHER we will ALL ACHIEVE www.cardiffrfc.com #BLUEANDBLACKS By now the pack were getting on top and with the back row working as a unit and nullifying the Keys attacks the ball seemed to be more in Cardiff hands than in Keys. And they were to provide a rare sight at Cardiff, a push over try that secured the bonus point, James Sheekey at the back of a five-metre scrum that had been stopped illegally twice before. That didn’t stop Cardiff playing though as they looked to attack from everywhere. Will Rees-Hole completed his hat-trick as he scored twice after great interplay between forwards and backs. The first created by Ian Jenkins bullocking run into the twenty-two. The other prop, Carre, who was named man of the match, setting up Cardiff’s sixth and Rees-Hole’s third. Keys had the final word as Nathan Trowbridge crossed but it was the Blue & Blacks day. CARDIFF RFC BALL TEAMS Cardiff RFC are delighted to have the support of Cardiff Schools Under 11s as our Ball Teams for this season. The boys and girls are seen here with the team following the win last week. Today they will have already played their game against Rhymney Valley, we will bring you the result during the game. TOGETHER we will ALL ACHIEVE www.cardiffrfc.com #BLUEANDBLACKS Hicks Titley Partnership M&E Consulting Engineers Award winning designers of energy efficient mechanical & electrical services for new and refurbished buildings and the wider environment Hicks Titley Partnership has practiced engineering consultancy services since 1999 within the Mechanical and Electrical services sector of the construction industry. Our design office is based at Cathedral Road in Cardiff. We specialise in large multi-residential new build and refurbished facilities, such as student accommodation, extra care facilities and multi-apartment developments. We cover all areas of the construction industry from large commercial office developments to new build homes. We have a strong history of working within the healthcare sector, both for the National Health Service and the private sector, providing detailed design from new and refurbished hospital facilities to large care homes throughout the UK. Our engineering design philosophy is based on a strong commitment to sustainability, using passive means by considering building form and how it conditions the environment within. Our design services consider end user comfort, using heat, light, and ventilation and aim to deliver simple and efficient buildings with low running costs. We can provide Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Services design using MEP REVIT modeling software to ensure collaborative working with the design and construction team. We are CIBSE accredited low carbon consultants and energy assessors, from domestic facilities, to complex non-domestic level 5 buildings requiring Dynamic Simulation Modelling using BRE accredited software, providing Energy Performance Certificates for all building types, and an ISO 9001 Quality Assurance accredited company. Hicks Titley Partnership Sophia House 28 Cathedral Road Cardiff CF11 9LJ Landline: (029) 2010 9124 Website: www.hickstitleypartnership.com e-mail: [email protected] Are proud to support Cardiff Rugby Football Club C’mon the Blue & Blacks We supply, install and maintain Building Energy Management System, to help our customer monitor an d control their energy usage and maintain comfort and productivity . 02920 522023 www .adroitcontrols.co.uk [email protected] 2017/2018 Season FIXTURES & RESUL TS Date Day Home Away KO Comp Result 12/08/2017 Saturday Taunton Cardiff 14:30 FR W 42-19 19/08/2017 Saturday Cardiff Carmarthen Q 14:30 FR W 12-5 27/08/2017 Sunday Newport Cardiff 14:30 PP W 31-19 02/09/2017 Saturday Cardiff Merthyr 14:30 PP W 24-17 09/09/2017 Saturday Bargoed Cardiff 14:30 PP W 21-17 16/09/2017 Saturday Cardiff Cross Keys 13:00 PP W 46-19 23/09/2017 Saturday Cardiff Ebbw Vale 14:30 PP 30/09/2017 Saturday Bedwas Cardiff 14:30 PP 07/10/2017 Saturday Cardiff Pontypridd 14:30 PP 28/10/2017 Saturday Cardiff Newport 14:30 PP 04/11/2017 Saturday Merthyr Cardiff 14:30 PP TBC Saturday Cardiff Bargoed TBC PP 18/11/2017 Saturday Cross Keys Cardiff 14:30 PP 25/11/2017 Saturday Ebbw Vale Cardiff 14:30 PP TBC Saturday Cardiff Bedwas TBC PP 23/12/2017 Saturday Pontypridd Cardiff 14:30 PP 30/12/2017 Saturday Newport Cardiff 14:30 PP 06/01/2018 Saturday Neath Cardiff 14:30 PP 03/02/2018 Saturday Bridgend Cardiff 14:30 PP TBC Saturday Cardiff Merthyr TBC PP 17/02/2018 Saturday Llandovery Cardiff 14:30 PP 24/02/2018 Saturday Cardiff Neath 14:30 NC 10/03/2018 Saturday Cardiff Swansea 14:30 PP 17/03/2018 Saturday Carmarthen Cardiff 14:30 PP TBC Saturday Cardiff Aberavon TBC PP 30/03/2018 Friday Bargoed Cardiff 14:30 PP 02/04/2018 Monday Cardiff RGC1404 14:30 PP 07/04/2018 Saturday Bedwas Cardiff 14:30 PP 14/04/2018 Saturday Cross Keys Cardiff 14:30 PP 21/04/2018 Saturday Cardiff Llanelli 14:30 PP 05/05/2018 Saturday Pontypridd Cardiff 14:30 PP 12/05/2018 Saturday Cardiff Ebbw Vale 14:30 PP TOGETHER we will ALL ACHIEVE www.cardiffrfc.com #BLUEANDBLACKS Win 4 Points.