WRU LEAGUE DIVISION 1
The Wern, Merthyr Tydfil
Saturday 20th November 1999. K.O. 2.30 pm

Above right : Steve Ford gives Lee Abdul the final scoring pass in Rumney's last win over Merthyr, 02.05.98

Previous results

 22.10.94(cup)  Merthyr 14  Rumney  13
 29.10.94  Rumney 32  Merthyr  03
 25.03.95  Merthyr 14  Rumney 14
 04.11.95  Merthyr 13   Rumney 08
 20.04.96  Rumney 28   Merthyr 08 
 26.10.96  Rumney 29   Merthyr 07 
 01.03.97  Merthyr 12   Rumney 12
 22.11.97  Merthyr 30   Rumney 30 
 02.05.98  Rumney 23   Merthyr 20 
 28.11.98  Rumney 22   Merthyr 23 
 24.04.99  Merthyr 29  Rumney 28

Rumney squad for Saturday : C.Wills, L.Abdul, J.Fofana, S.Enoch, P.Ford, S.Davies, G.Downes, G.Welch, P.Douglas, C.Miles, N.Ritchie, D.Smith, M.Davey, M.Peard, S.Barber, M.Bowcott, G.George, B.Atkins, D.Sage, S.Greedy, A.Moore.

 

Merthyr 29   Rumney 22

Scorers for Rumney : C.Wills try, M.Peard try, M.Davey try, S.Davies 2 conversions and 1 penalty

 

In the first half Rumney looked the more dangerous side and scored two excellent tries after flowing movements between backs and forwards - Christian Wills scored the first following an outstanding break by Simon Greedy and Mike Peard crashed over for the second. Merthyr's first half try came from centre Nigel Berbillion and this was later followed by their second try when captain Mark Lewis finished off a fine move. Merthyr outside half Stuart Hancox dummied his way through the Rumney defence to touch down and also kicked two penalties to give his side a 29 - 15 lead. In injury time Simon Davies slipped a pass to prop Matthew Davey who scored under the posts for Rumney. Simon Davies converted.

Con Ritchie, Rumney RFC : "We should have won the game in the first half, we seemed to be out of sight but in the second half we lost it. Rumney must learn to take chances - we made lots of them but didn't take them".