A group of 30+ players and supporters left Betws on the Thursday, 27th September enroute to the Nantes region of France to take part in a Festival of Rugby coinciding with the Fiji-Wales game in the RWC. The boys played one match, described by their French hosts as a Demonstration Match, against the local team “VX de l’Erdre”as part of a day-long celebration of the game of “Le Rugby”. The boys were “well up” for the fixture as they have been training long and hard in the Railway Inn, The Old Cross and the Bard, but watch out for the “vin rouge” guys, it’s nothing like Worthy Creamflow!  
 

The trip was arranged under the auspices of Betws RFC’s residential Frenchman, the aptly named Steffan “France”, who acted as interpreter (English-French for most of the boys but English-English for Cellan). 
 

The visit by the Betws boys made the news out in Nantes and with the BBC now interested, it could be the biggest threat to Anglo-French relationships since 1066! Hopefully, some pictures will be shown on the site on their return – should they return that is!
 

For further information on the trip, visit the French website at: xvdelerdre.free.fr 
 

The club recently hosted a match between a Llanelli & District XV and a Dyfed Powys Police XV with the Police emerging as winners in a keenly contested match. Both Dylan Thomas and Ellis Davies, respective Secretaries of the Police and District teams were extremely complimentary about the facilities afforded by the club and were especially complimentary regarding the condition of the Maes y Felin pitch, ably prepared by our groundsman, Mr Brian “Parks” Lewis.