Ebbw Vale

Yeah, and it's a bit of an issue now when you're looking at who's going to stop them.

You know, Ebbw Vale is the next big one end of the month.

Halloween.

But then, you know, they've got a few weeks off and, you know, you're hoping someone, if it's not done by then, it'll happen the other side.

Hard to disagree.

31-15 win for the Drawers, a full six-pointer for them.

We head down for the first game at St Helens in quite a long time, where the man himself here, his team, Ebbw Vale, travel down... to break Swansea hearts.

And it wasn't quite as bad a break as what some of the scoreline telling, well, timeline telling will have you believe.

I mean, they're finding new and impressive ways to lose every week.

They managed to throw it away, losing by a point to Ebbw Vale on Saturday.

But, yeah, you expect them to have a big game going into what should be their biggest crowd for a good few years there.

There's a question...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Um, yeah, the most notable thing about him, I think, and perhaps the reason why he was happy to take the job, is that he used to play for Newport and Ebbw Vale.

Um, so I can't imagine why somebody with that CV might be happy to get on pla- board of the plan that refen- ring-fences rugby in Newport when maybe other people wouldn't have.

Um, but yeah, it is yet another stumble forward, uh, on the road to the end of all this.

Yeah.

Kai Evans was playing at 10 for Ebbw Vale, and he scored the winning penalty at-

He did

...

St. Helen's to beat Swansea RFC.

Ebbw Vale legend, Kai Evans.

[laughs]

Oh, dear.

Having experienced this cruel disease so close to home, it's like somebody disintegrating from the inside out, and it just seems really cruel.

Gavin Watkins and his wife, Kim, from Ebbw Vale, have been living with Gavin's dementia since he was diagnosed with the disease five years ago.

At the moment, there is no cure.

They reckon there's one up-

The roof is up on the family stand, and I saw today they've actually started on the JCP Mumbles Road stand as well, putting the roof on that.

Uh, the first game will now be on Saturday when Swansea RFC, the Whites, entertain Ebbw Vale, but I understand only the JCP, uh, stand will be open for this.

The changing rooms are up.

I think we've got some toilets, some bars coming.

I had, I had a chat with one, one of the Ospreys, uh, management team, and I had a quick look around.

So things are coming along at pace.

Um, at the point I talked to them, they weren't sure, um, what was gonna be open for the Ebbw Vale card, uh, uh, Swansea game, okay? But you could see the, the fans' own tarmac was being rolled out as a, as a...

I was chatting away.

So get across all of them for all your multiple rugby questions.

content which is coming out as the season properly gets going now and especially ahead of the European action which picks up the weekend after next we're heading to Rags Corner now though Cardiff beat Ebbw Vale 14-59 at Eugene Cross Park on the weekend 7-12 a half-time in quite a tense game.

Cardiff largely in control, but then right on half-time with the clock red, conceded a score and a yellow card, which threatened to change momentum, starting the second half with 14 men.

But Tom Cottle produced a charge down and scored a try off that.

Yeah

... against Ebbw Vale.

Sorry, Jamie.

I was gonna say, if you haven't seen it, I'd go find that out on Twitter.