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Electric Mountain

07 Monday Sep 2015

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Sunday 30th August 2015 ko 14.30

Welsh Alliance Division One

LLANRUG UNITED 2 (Palmer 64 DN Williams 87)

LLANRWST UNITED 1 (Jenkins 79)

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Even after a week or so after the event, there’s one aspect of the Eithin Duon ground I’m not certain of. If you stand on the right-hand side of the pitch there’s a wonderful view of Snowdonia, with a massive pylon in the middle of it! Now on one hand the pylon is exceedingly ugly, but it does give the place quite a talking point, and I’d hate the valley to be without power! Continue reading →

Time

27 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Saturday 23rd August 2014 ko 11.00

Welsh Alliance Division One

PWLLHELI 5 (C Jones 7 82 Scott 45 49 68)

LLANRUG UNITED 4 (Lloyd 8 Owen 24p DN Williams 56 Sadler 80)

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When you’re organising a groundhop time is everything. You sit for hours with lists of clubs grouped by geography then use Google maps to calculate distance and from that, time. It’s a precious commodity and a simple error on the part of the coach company, a lost set of keys to one of our coaches, threatened to derail us. Continue reading →

Yr Wyddfa

31 Saturday Aug 2013

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Saturday 24th August 2013 ko 18.30

Welsh Alliance Division One

GLANTRAETH 3 (Taylor 25 76 C Roberts 78)

LLANRUG UNITED 2 (Pritchard 18 D.N. Williams 90) D. N. Williams missed penalty 15

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I’m sure the Welsh hop has taken in locations more remote than Cae Glantraeth, the trip to Rhosgoch with the coach’s cooked brakes springs to mind, but this one was up with the best of them!

The club is named after the Glantraeth Farm and the nearest settlement is the small village of Trefdraeth, with the larger 400 inhabitant village of Malltraeth, about a mile-and-half distant. The district, Bodorgan is the current home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge while Prince William serves as a search and rescue pilot at RAF Valley, 9 or so miles away. I did keep half an eye open for a yellow helicopter! Other than transplanted royalty, Hollywood actress Continue reading →