North Wales Cup draws announced The draws for the North Wales Senior Cup, Senior Plate, Intermedi- North & Mid Wales ate Cup and Intermediate Plate have been announced and are listed below: A. Quarter finals North Wales SENIOR CUP to be completed on or before 13th February 2016 RUGBY WEST Caernarfon v Pwllheli Welcome to the latest issue of The North and Mid Wales Rugby Dolgellau v Bethesda Magazine and thanks for the kind words about the last issue. It EAST seems that there are a lot of other people like me who likes ink on Ruthin v Nant Conwy paper and struggle with this reading on-screen. Bala v Abergele B. Quarter finals North Wales SENIOR PLATE If you haven’t yet taken out a subscription for the printed version to be completed on or before 13th February 2016 of the magazine and would like to, the details can be found on WEST this page. Llangefni v Llandudno Bye- Bro Ffestiniog By the time you read this, the World Cup will be over and what a EAST tournament it was, especially in the pool and quarter final stages. Colwyn Bay v Cobra We had tremendous crowds, giantkilling (who will ever forget that Bye- Denbigh great Japan win to start the tournament?) and the Tiier 2 coun- NB Quarter Finals- SENIOR CUP and PLATE to be completed on or tries suddenly became everybody’s favourite second team. Hope- before 13th February 2016. fully, following some great displays, the so-called ‘elite’ countries will start playing regular fixtures against the liks of Georgia and Date of the fixtures to be confirmed by email with the Game & Liaison Sub Committee (G&LSC) by 21st November, 2015. It is the responsi- assist in their development. bility of the home team to make the initial communication to organise the date - this should be undertaken by 14th November at the latest. One of the highlights of the month for me was an ‘away day’ with C. Quarter finals North Wales INTERMEDIATE CUP the girls of Caernarfon RFC to play Gwernyfed. The Cofis are TO BE COMPLETED BY 23rd JANUARY 2016 riding high in the Premiership and with a few Welsh internationals in their squad will likely be pushing for silverware this season. R1 - Newtown v Llanidloes R2 - Bangor v Harlech R3 - Shotton v Rhyl If you haven’t seen a women’s game lately, you really ought to as R4 - Wrexham v Rhos you’ll be very surprised at the standard. Really impressive and NB Quarter Finals- INTERMEDIATE CUP to be completed on or with the amount of junior teams around the region at the moment, before 23rd January 2016. ‘the future is certainly looking very bright for the women’s game. Date of the fixtures to be confirmed by email with the Game & Liaison Sub Committee (G&LSC) by 21st November, 2015. It is the responsi- Hope you enjoy the read! bility of the home team to make the initial communication to organise the date - this should be undertaken by 14th November at the latest. NB D. The INTERMEDIATE PLATE will involve the four losers from SUBSCRIPTION TO THE END OF THE SEASON R1, R2, R3 and R4 above plus the four losers from the 1st round of the Intermediate Cup i.e. Llangollen, Flint, Menai Bridge and Welsh- - SEVEN ISSUES - JUST £17.50 pool - to be played on or before 13th February 2016. Please help keep this magazine going - another seven monthly issues for just £17.50 delivered to your door. 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Gary Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07713 514 375 www.ovalzone.co.uk Front cover picture: Shotton Steel v Wrexham kindly Gary Williams, Wylfa, Westwood Park, Welshpool, Powys SY21 7QP supplied by Mike Wood - www.ikonnimages.co.uk LIKE TO ADVERTISE? - PLEASE RING 07713 514 375 COBRA support RABI Dolgellau Rugby Club RUGBY NEWS Juniors raise over £1000 in RUGBY NEWS Mid Wales Cup 1st Round annual ‘Cyclothon’ Bethan’s Big Bike Ride Over fifty young Dolgellau rugby players swapped the ‘turf for the track’ Draw announced last Sunday when they took part in the Junior Sections bi annual ‘Cyclot- hon’ along the Mawddach Valley. Some great games in store as Builth Wells 2nds v Llandrindod last season’s winners, Llanidloes, Wells Players and parents from Dolgellau Rugby Club’s Juniors participated in host Trefyclawdd in this season’s Aber University v Rhayader the ‘Cyclothon’ along the beautiful Morfa Mawddach Trail. competition. Cobra 2nds v Newtown Welshpool - Bye Players, both boys and girls from ‘under 6s’ through to ‘ under 15s’ put 1st Round Draw the pedal to the floor to cycle varying distances along the trail to raise Llanidloes v Trefyclawdd All games to be played by much needed funds for the Junior Section. Aberystwyth Athletic v Machynlleth December 5th In all, over 250 miles was cycled by the children; raising around £1000:00 for much needed monies to keep the youngsters up and running for the seasons competition ahead. COBRA donate £250 to the Royal Club Captain Iwan Vaughan and A Rugby Club official said “ The organisers would like to thank all those Agricultural Benevolent Institution Director Alan Jukes who cycled both young and old and also to all in Dolgellau who have kindly sponsored the children in what was really successful and enjoyable COBRA have donated £250 to sup- County committees work at local event. port the Royal Agricultural Benevo- level to raise awareness of R.A.B.I Picture and report by Rod Davies Photography, Dolgellau COBRA donate £250 to Bethan’s Big Bike Ride to help raise awareness of lent Institution which is a welfare as well as help raise funds. Many Bone Cancer and help charities that support local people and families. charity that helps to change lives organisations and individual donate for the better. to the RABI and they rely on the Bethan Evans and her family want to raise awareness and give something generosity of their supporters to back to charities which have helped them after Bethan was diagnosed Pictured above is Joan Watkins, be able to provide help to farming with Bone Cancer in 2012. COBRA have donated £250 from last seasons RABI Montgomery Committee people when it is needed most. gate receipts to help out in that cause. Member receiving a cheque from Pictured above are Bethan (who was a bit camera shy) with her father Rhaid oedd canmol digyblion Ysgol y Berwyn am drefnu a rhedeg yr wyl ll- Arwel receiving a cheque from Club Captain Iwan Vaughan and Club wyddianus hon lle gafodd cyfanswm o 110 o gemau gwahanol ei chware . Director Alan Jukes Gobeithio hefyd iddynt fwynhau y profiad o drefnu/dyfarnu/gosod y caeau a gwneud yr holl waith sydd yn ymwneud a cynnal diwrnod fel hwn. One hundred and ten games Rhaid cofio y bobol ifanc yma yw chwaraewyr a gwirfoddolwyr y dyfodol i played at Bala Primary Schools glwb rygbi Y Bala. World Cup Festival World cup at Bala On Friday the 2nd of October a special rugby festival was held at Clwb On Friday the 2nd of October a special rugby festival was held at Clwb Rygbi Y Bala. Following report by Euros Jones, WRU Hub Officer. Rygbi Y Bala. As part of their Welsh Bach course that is offered from the Welsh rugby union, students from yr 10 at Ysgol y Berwyn organised a tag Cwpan y Byd yn Y Bala festival on a World cup theme for the five local primary schools. Dydd Gwener 2ail o Hydref cafwyd gwyl rygbi arbennig iawn yn Clwb rygbi In all 176 children were present and made up 22 teams each representing y Bala. Fel rhan or cwrs bagaloriaeth cymraeg sydd yn cael ei gynnig gan a chosen country. It was a pleasure to see the rugby fields full of children undeb rygbi Cymru roedd disgyblion blwyddyn 10 Ysgol Y Berwyn wedi having fun many of them having their first experience at the club. trefnu gwyl rygbi ar themau cwpan y byd ar gyfer ysgolion cynradd Penl- lyn. The Berwyn pupils must be applauded on organising and running this successful day where a total of 110 games were played on the day and Roedd 176 o blant yn bresennol ar y diwrnod a rhannwyd rhain i fewn i 22 hopefully they also enjoyed the experience of organising and running an o dimau gwahanol a oedd yn cynrychioli gwlad arbennig. Braf oedd gweld event like this. y caeau rygbi yn llawn o blant cynradd yn mwynhau ei hunain llawer ohonynt yn cael ei profiad cyntaf o ddod ir clwb. Euros Jones Swyddog rygbi Ysgol y Berwyn(hub officer). Down memory lane... Newtown v Tywyn Army - 18th April, 1942 Got a ‘Memory Lane’ pic from your club you would like to share? Please email it to [email protected] with as much information as you have available please Pictured left: The Tywyn Army team of 1942. After the first season, it had been indicated that this section would In effect, if you can get someone from your be left out in future years, but this wasn’t the case, meaning The WRU Club Audit that some clubs who had been pro-active in ensuring that their club to get on the phone to Merf Picton and registrations databases were accurate ended up missing out on they get out and referee some Youth and 2nd funding, when they could have kept quiet and pocketed the cash.