Swansea RFC

I'm glad you went west, actually, because a bit like you, as you know, I grew up in the valleys, but I went west as well for different reasons.

And when you eventually got, well, you'd been there previously as a player, but my God, did you make a mark on Swansea Rugby Club, and that's for sure.

And again, for those listening, the periods that I'm looking at, I think at Swansea, I think it was 92 and 94 when you won the Welsh League titles with Swansea.

There was a huge collective of international players that you were developing and bringing through the system.

And when they did get a chance to try and restart momentum, we'd push them off the field, off the ball.

And we had a reunion a couple of years ago at the Paddy Pavilion.

And someone said, well, why are we having the reunion in the Paddy Pavilion, not Swansea Rugby Club? I said, well, we pushed them back so far.

This is where their forwards ended up.

It's just woven into it, and whatever it takes to get you at the right emotional level, I suppose.

But yeah, I mean, the rugby in Wales... is you know it levels they've had to regionalize and there's talk now isn't there of it being regionalized you know going down to two or three regions or there's a Gwen and then Dragons you know Ospreys where the Ospreys will go no one knows yet you know they've just moved back down to St Helens Swan all sort of began with Swansea Rugby Club and Cricket Club is but yeah I mean the the rugby's there is it's abrasive let's let I mean that's a good way of describing it and I think some of those those traits and qualities, as I say, at Welsh Rugby, they still remain.

They definitely do.

It's just a case of, you know, the game's changed.

So the Scarlets have a note against having an outdoor all-weather pitch, which is slightly irrelevant because they've got such a good indoor facility, whereas the Ospreys are marked down for not having training facilities at the stadium.

But I'm not sure how they've worked that out because the likes of Swansea RFC train at St. Helens already.

I guess that must mean the, the gym and the weights and stuff like that aren't at the facility.

Whereas the Dragons are marked down as not having training facilities at the stadium, not having a grass training pitch, or not having an indoor training facility.

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St. Helen's to beat Swansea RFC.

Ebbw Vale legend, Kai Evans.

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Yeah, there might be a few more terrace seats becoming available.

I think they've got safety protocols on the Swansea RFC.

The Whites have got a couple of games which might allow to be a few more seats to be...

Oh, good stuff.

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.