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15 Monday Dec 2025

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Dafen Welfare, Football, groundhopping, GroundhopUK, history, Huw Edwards, Llangennech, Llangennech Park, Non League, Premier League, soccer, Sports, Wales, West Wales Premier League

Saturday 13th September 2025 ko 11:00

West Wales Premier League

LLANGENNECH 2 (Caffrey 9 Rumbelow 36)

L Griffiths sent off 90+2 (serious foul play)

Benjamin sent off 90+2 (serious foul play)

DAFEN WELFARE 2 (Brown 16 Williams 63)

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Saturday on the West Wales Premier Hop was slightly odd, in the sense that the only game in the league was this one, in the pretty village of Llangennech.

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The River Island

21 Monday Oct 2024

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Dafen Welfare, Football, groundhop, groundhopping, GroundhopUK, John Player, Non League, Photography, travel, Wales, Ynystawe Athletic, Yynstawe Park

Saturday 21st September 2024 ko 11:00

West Wales Premier League

YNYSTAWE ATHLETIC 2 (Brooks 34p Green 57)

DAFEN WELFARE 2 (Jones 16 54)

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Between the ill-fated Carmarthenshire Hop and this West Wales Premier League Hop we do seem to be seeing a lot of Pont Abraham. Most will know the place as being the western end of the M4 but if you’ve done enough of these events you’ll see it as being the gateway to places like Llandeilo , Pontarddulais and now Ynystawe.

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Environs

10 Tuesday Oct 2023

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Dafen Park, Dafen Welfare, Football, groundhop, groundhopping, GroundhopUK, Wales, West Wales Premier League, Ynystawe, Ynystawe Athletic

Saturday 23rd September 2023 ko 16:45

West Wales Premier League

DAFEN WELFARE 0

Morgan sent off (DOGSO) 28

YNYSTAWE ATHLETIC 8 (Loughlin 5 55 Owens 14p B James 24 34 Morgan 45 Gibbons 90+4)

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We stayed in Llanelli’s suburbs for the final hop game of the Saturday. The village, as the club’s name suggests is a link to the area’s past as a centre for coal mining, the St David’s and Porthdafen Collieries were close to here. And that fact did have an impact on what we experienced at Dafen Park.

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