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28 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by laurencereade in L

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Joe Vousden, Kelvin Frazer, Kevin Davies, llanfairpwll, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, mummery, Pwllheli, railway station, Stephen Smith, Trefor Lloyd Hughes, Welsh Groundhop

Saturday 24th August 2013 ko 10.15

Welsh Alliance Division One

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Of the 4 days on this groundhop, Saturday proved to be by far the most difficult to organise. We prefer to have 4 games on the Saturday, as with 3 games you tend to see attendances drop alarmingly for the middle game, as hoppers go off-piste and find alternate games. With 4 they have to give up two hop games which tends to see more stay with the hop.

With a day on Anglesey, the obvious last game would have been Llangefni, with a set of floodlights a relic of their one season in the Welsh Premier, but that idea was scotched as we soon discovered they no longer work. They were replaced by Glantraeth, but were to be the away team at Llanfairpwll. Sadly Llangefni then opted to drop down to the Anglesey League, so we were grateful to Pwllheli who offered to replace them and be an away side twice on the hop.

With all 4 clubs lacking floodlights, it meant an early start from the University Continue reading →

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