Rugby Site 2011

The village of Hafodyrynys has been found to be mentioned as far back as the 17th century; an important droving road / crossroads. The team however is somewhat younger but has been found to be referenced as far back as c.1904; while the earliest match report found was in The Football Argus records of January 1920 when an Hafodyrynys team played Panteg at home. We’re not sure where the club was playing then or when it was originally formed but it is thought in c.1926 during the depression the pitch as we know it today was constructed by filling in two ponds at the site. In earlier days the local Hafodyrynys Hotel was used as a club house until later when the Miners Welfare Club was established at the ground c.1957. There are many questions still not answered about the club but further investigative work is planned. As pieces of information surface they will be listed. We would like to ask any readers of this site to forward any information or memorabilia they have or discover so we can expand this club history section. Also please bare with us as inaccuracies are bound to creep in now and again as a lot of information is passed down from hand to mouth and time does have a way of distorting things.

Timeline

We will endeavour to add data when it is unearthed and add it to this section in chronological order starting with the oldest information. Where exact dates are missing we will add the circa symbol before the year (c.) and make the best educate estimate available to us.

Layout

The information will be laid to give the best known date, source and/or provider of the information, an event and short description. So go on have a scroll through history.

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Date

Captain

Events / Comments

Source

1904		First reference of club found.	Steve Woodward
1920	Unknown	First report of match found in Football Argus.	(See Article page)
1926		Pitch constructed during the depression by filling in two local ponds.	Alan Davies
1945-55	W Jones
1955-56	W Jones
1956-57	P Richards
1957		Foundation dug for the main hall by Roy Taylor (Aged 15), John (Barney) Taylor, Jack (Coogan) Taylor, Mike Pearson & Harry Pearson.	Roy Taylor
1957-58	B Bishop
1958-59	A Jones
1959-60	A Jones
1960-61	A Jones
1961-62	G Lewis
1962-63	Arthur Lewis	Arthur Lewis went on to play for Crumlin & Ebbw Vale before being capped for Wales.
1963-64	Derek Woodward
1964-65	John Wilks
1965-66	Brian Watkins
1966-67	Jeff Dorrell
1967-68	R Jones	Apr.1968 - First Easter tour for club - travels to Looe in Cornwall.	Derek Broom
1968-69	Bob Bryan
1969-70	Bob Bryan	Apr.1970 - Teams' second Easter tour and it’s back to Looe.	Garrad Knight
1970-71	John Wilks
1971-72	John Wilks	Apr.1972 - Easter tour to Llandudno, N Wales.	Tony Bates
1972-73	Bob Bryan
1973-74	Bob Bryan
1974-75	Bob Bryan
1975-76	Tony Smith
1976-77	Les Edwards
1977-78	Steve Woodward
1978-79	Dai Hassell	Les Drew - Club President (Feb).
1979-80	M Moore	John Brown - Club President (Nov).
1980-81	C Goodway
1981-82	Steve Woodward
1982-83	Steve Woodwad	D Mutlow - Club President (Sep).
1983-84	Steve Woodward
1984-85	Les Edwards
1985-86	A Thoms
1986-87	Steve Woodward
1987-88	Brad Challenger
1988-89	Brad Challenger
1989-90	L York	Team tours Loule in Portugal.
1990-91	K Jenkins
1991-92	C Goodway
1992-93	C Goodway
1993-94	D Richards Phil Connett
1994-95	N Parfitt
1995-96	N Parfitt
1996-97	I Crees
1997-98	P Morgan
1998-99	Chris Wall
1990-2000	Chris Wall
2000-01	A Lewis Mark Lawrence
2001-02	Chris Wall
2002-03	M Hodges
2003-04	R Topp G Watkins
2004-05	Dai Tovey Chris Wall
2005-06	H Morgan
2006-07	Chris wall
2007-08	Gethin Foxwell
2008-09	Gethin Foxwell Dai Tovey	Apr.2009 - Foundations started for new changing rooms. Dave Baynon - Club President
2009-10	Dai Tovey	First season in SWALEC Division 6 South East League. Steve Hancock - Club President. New changing rooms used for first time - opposition Panteg. Aug.2009 - First web site for club constructed and launched by Tony Bates. Winners of SWALEC Division 6 South East League.
2010-11	Dai Tovey	Feb.2011 - New Captains and Presidents board for clubhouse. Winners of SWALEC Division 6 South East League (trophy presented May 7th). Winners of Cyrus Davies Cup beating Abertysswg (May 14th). Team tours Benidorm, Spain.
2011-12	Dai Tovey	Promotion to SWALEC Division 5 East League Winners of Trinant 7's competition The Rams - Mini & Junior section started this season Hafod 2nds play their first games this season
2011-12	Gavin Davies	Jan.2012 - Gavin takes over captaincy from Dai Tovey who retires from team. Grandstand installed at the Welfare - first for the club (Jan 26th)