Saturday 11 April 2026 K.O.14:30

Ystrad Mynach PARK, Ystrad Mynach.

Penallta Athletic RFC 64 – 5 Magor RFC

We always knew playing high flying Penallta Athletic for the first time would be a tough ask, they have put 99 on Hirwaun and a whopping 141 on Girling this season, and so it proved. This is one of the irritations of being in Division 6, higher level teams dropping down from much higher divisions or “athletic” teams entering at the lowest level makes it really difficult for genuine competition between true Div 6 teams. We just have to suck it up and try our best – its an opportunity for us to try and play at a higher level I suppose.

Things didn’t start well either, Aaron Boardman had to pull out of the starting line up with a knee injury incurred during the warm up.

One thing we can take from this game is that our scrum was far superior to Penallta’s and we pushed them back at virtually every attempt whether it was their ball or ours. We didn’t come away empty handed and Ben Hampson got over the line out on the left fairly late in the game.

We needed better line speed, more desire but when we moved the ball quickly, we caused some problems. Penallta were absolutely clinical though, their number 8 featuring in many moves and scoring a few tries. It was nice to see the young Penallta scrum half who looked after our minis when they were guard of honour at the Dragons #wearegwentrugby!

Just one final word. We are a band of brothers, we stand side by side, win or lose, on the pitch and off it. We’re here for any of our brothers who might be having a tough time, on the pitch and off it. #Uppagor.