Div 1 Welsh Cup Final arrangements

For anyone wanting a day out!

Hi all, please find details on our cup final at the Principality Stadium on Sunday, 7th April 

KO is @ 1 o'clock

Return bus from Stradey Park, cost is £10 per person. No concession. Times of buses to be confirmed.

Ticket cost is £10 Adult and children u16 £5 

Please note all tickets are digital and you must download the Principality Stadium ticket app. The children are able to use the parents' app for admission along with anybody who hasn't got a smart phone .

When ordering tickets, we will ask for the mobile number that is registered with the app to transfer your tickets. You can transfer tickets via the app if you are ordering for family or friends.

Please note that payment will be required when ordering tickets and seats on the bus, these payments are non refundable.

Tickets and bus seats can be purchased from the club from this Saturday, we will be sorting further dates and times asap. If your unable to attend in person please email your order to

wanderers.tickets@gmail.com

We have booked the Cardiff RFC club for a central place for all our supporters to meet before and after the game . Buses will drop off as near as possible to the Cardiff RFC ground.

Tickets will be transferred over to you via the ticketing app week commencing Monday the 1st April .

Deadline for ordering tickets and seats on the busses  is Friday 29th March please note no tickets will be ordered after this date 

Any questions please contact the club . 

I’m going anyway! 👍 Scarletpimp - up for this? 

Watch out for the rampant Ressytheexile in the crowd shots.

There’s apparently a sprint race lined up with Dan Vaughan 

They have done really  well this year, and can be possibly looking for promotion  from  div1 west.

This final however,  is a "one off" though and they will face a very determined  Glyneath team standing  in their way.

Let's hope Max Boyce is not composing a victory  song tomorrow  night

Finally, best wishes also go to Llandovery,  who play Merthyr in the Premiership  Cup final ,at the end of the afternoon.

Two wins for the boys from the West,  would be great  !

 

The pitch has had 42 games on it since the Italy game, with the best will in the world without any prep time and gaps in fixtures all you can really do is mow it and do a bit of divoting.

Add to that they did scrum v on the pitch on the Sunday after the French match meaning they lost another day with the lights on.No scope for any nurturing or growing of grass.

Hope your safe return home is planned with similar precision as you celebrate into the night 

wow fantastic idea

I bet that cost a pretty penny

did you get some free parking too?

How do you like your loss...Grilled, baked, Broiled, Steamed, fried microwaved...or any other way????

I HATED losing, both as a player, coach and maybe now even more as a mere supporter.

Not just losses, humiliating losses we have seen recently

Isn't great therefore, to come home today from the Principality stadium, as WINNERS, both for Llandovery and Llanelli Wanderers, so an element of pride in the Region can be restored.

Both teams were far from their best today. Credit however, must go to Glyneath and Merthyr ( tough teams) ,for not only making it difficult, but taking these games to the wire. It was touch and go !

I have never seen Drovers and Wanderers make so many unforced errors , particularly when they had chances in the Red zone.

The difference in the end was tenacity in defence and really hanging in there when the going gets tough. Lessons to be learnt here .

In the Wanderers case , and even though the very effective and dangerous Josh Weeds was the official MOTM, the cool head and incredibly efficient boot of Nick Gale won the day !

Dare i say coaches who have instilled a sense of belief,unity and pride in the shirt ?

Can I respond to Ladram's POINT HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE REGARDING COACHES INSTILLLING, BELIEF, UNITY AND PRIDE.

This is unequivocally true, and the proof of the pudding is what Sean Gale has  ingrained in his Wanderers team a steel which is mirrored by another robust character from the front row union Toby Booth and what he has achieved . I would love to se this more readily on display at Parc with Scarlets !

Sean has over 260 games for Llanelli/Scarlets, but also has 18 years of coaching Narberth, making them now ,one of the best teams in the championship(west). He is organised and incredibly thorough, and has clear demands from what he wants from his team. Usually gets it !

Do'nt forget , his father was welsh international Norman Gale, and his uncle Byron Gale, two incredibly hard men. Norman was also very shrewd, and would often be seen poring over a whiteboard ,with my dad in his office at Trostre wks, discussing tactics and manoeuvres....two coaches together !

In fairness Scarlets Albert Van Den Berg, has adopted the Wanderers as his "community club" and been helping with the line out preparation and skills for a while.

It may be working better for the wanders than the Scarlets, as Wanderers hardly lost a line out ,on their own throw, and burgled several of Glyneaths throws...which proves that something is working.

He was also there on Saturday supporting Sean and the boys, which is great to see.

Yes coaches have a profound influence, and just like teaching, there can be some effective and some ineffective coaching. 

A coach cannot play the game for the team , in which individual error of lack of judgement may prevail, But he can influence hugely the way the team plays together as a unit , both in defence and attack,

Not only that technical approach however, but the coach can embroider a total  resolve and an undying spirit, that "we will not be beaten" in his team, which makes them difficult opponents even when they are not always winners every game.

Like you Pimp I am convinced that strong leadership skills and man management are lacking in our Head Coach sadly and helping to create the malaise in the squad and lets hope that the new Performance person can help on these items although unless this person is actually rugby manager of the Head Coach (which doesn't seem to be the case) they will need to get on and work very well together or, it could well end up in friction between two ego's and disunity, all caused by a fudge to keep the new MD happy. Charting out how these these two roles will function in practice when you add on the pressures in these jobs anyway, could be very challenging. Interesting, that the one Welsh applicant that has applied hasn't coached for 15 years (that's spookingly about  when 72 year old Gareth Jenkins stopped!) And so it means that Dai Young hasn't applied when you think he might have a look at it as a way back to the pro game.