Pontyclun Walking Rugby team play at the Principality Stadium
The WRU organised a Walking Rugby festival at the Principality Stadium on Monday 29th April 2019.
8 teams from South & Mid wales were invited to attend and Pontyclun as one of the first Walking Rugby teams in Wales was invited to play.
14 Intrepid players and our great coaches from Play Sport Wales made the short hop by train to Cardiff.
The budding starlets starting getting ready in the Home changing rooms with a short warm up on the pitch where photos were taken including with the 6 Nations and Triple crown trophies
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| Pontyclun with 6 Nations and Triple Crown Trophies |
The 8 teams gathered and it was down the tunnel to music and lights to start the games.
We knew it was serious when a set of qualified referees turned up for each match! One recalled refereeing a match at Pontyclun where he was punched by a player - from Builth Wells thank goodness so he had no hard feelings to us.
Pontyclun played teams from Cambian (Porth); Pontypridd; Ynysybwl and Treorchy. The matches were played with a great spirit of fun.
Even with JPR on our side we did not achieve a clean sweep but it is fair to say every team came over for photos with us. Amazing what having a legend with you does to your popularity.
After the matches there were medals for all, back to the Players lounge for refreshments then the serious action started in the bar!
We have now arranging more matches against Treorchy and Cardiff for this summer.
The team meets Wednesday mornings at 10am in Pontyclun Park. New players, are always welcome so come along and join
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| Behind the scenes in the stadium |
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| Home changing room - where's Alun Wyn's space? |
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| Lord Ellis Thomas issuing medals |
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| Geraint John with JPR Keith and Gwyn |
I was there!
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