Team for Sunday

The starting team for Sunday will be:

1 Josh     2 Sean M    3 Cian
4  Connor    5  Tom B
6  Matt S   8 Tom T  7 Tal
9  Morgan  10 Jake S
12 Jake C  13 Tommy
11 Jon  15 Will  14 Sean A

Everyone else will be subbed on as normal so everyone gets a game.

Pirates vs South Gower, Underhill Park, Sunday 23 September 10.30am

The match on Sunday (23 September 2012) is against South Gower.  We are at home at Underhill Park on the junior pitch.  Meet at 10.00am for a 10.30am kick-off (remember the car park gets busy with all the tiny footballers).

Switch pass

Here's a note on the switch pass we practiced at training.

Base (or scrum half) pass

Here's what we did on Sunday with the base (or scrum half) pass.  A few more key points to practice and check the body shape from the photos.

Training tonight, Tuesday starting at 6

Training tonight, starting at 6, finishing at 7.  Junior pitch (nearest car park) Underhill Park.  The match on Sunday will be versus South Gower and will be at home at Underhill Park.

Training Sunday and practice match, Underhill Park 10.30

No opponents for Sunday so we will train at Underhill at 10.30am, same pitch as Tuesday training.  Start at 10.30, work through some techniques and finish with a practice match on the full pitch.

Training Tuesday 11 September, 6pm

The Pirates lost a close contest against Dunvant on Sunday, losing by 17-10 after a very entertaining encounter.  The team showed a much improved performance.

Training on Tuesday is a 6pm start with the first team coach, so be ready to start at 6.  Training finishes at 7pm, but after training we will have a short kicking contest 15-20 minutes for anyone who wants to take part.

Dunvant vs Mumbles Pirates, Sunday 10.30am

The match on Sunday is at Dunvant.  Kick-off is 10:30 so we meet at 10:00.  We beat them twice last year and we'll need to start well if we are to beat them again.

Training tonight at 6pm

Try and get there before to get your boots on so we can make a quick start.

Pirates v Loughor

A quick start to the season for the Pirates with a visit from Loughor.  It was a case of in at the deep end with limited practice before the season.  Some good sections of play undermined by the usual culprit of poor tackling gifting simple tries to the visitors.  A better second half saw the Pirates in the Loughor half for much of the time culminating in the final try fromWill and a scoreline of 7-27.  Much to work on against a physically similar Loughor team who were more focussed.

Training on Tuesday at 6pm.

Match vs Loughor is on

Sunday 2nd September, home against Loughor 10am meet

The proposed plan is to meet at 10am at Bishopston for a little light training, scrummaging and positional work, then warming up for a game with aloughor at 11:00am.  As we haven't practiced enough scrummaging we will have to go with uncontested scrums to keep it safe and agree that with Loughor before we start.   The match will be 15 a side, but everyone will get a good run out.  Please respond to the Teamer so we can see who is available.

Training Tues 28th August 6 til 7 Underhill carpark/junior pitch

Rugby fun day cancelled due to weather

Rugby Fun Day - Monday 27 Aug - training session with Ospreys at 13:00

Training 6-7pm Tues 21st August Underhill Junior Pitch

Ospreys Skills Event - Wed 29 Aug

Ospreys are running a skills event at Llandarcy Academy of Sport on Wed 29 August - with 10:00-12:00 set aside for U12 (12:00-14:00 for U13 and 14:00-16:00 for U14).

Free admission - book by Friday 24 August.

Contact: Andy Williams ADWilliams@wru.co.uk

Summer training

Training starts up at the end of July through August, just for some fun and to blow off the cobwebs. It will be on Tuesdays from 18:00-19:00 Junior Pitch, Underhill Park. 31 July: JB/PL 7 Aug: JB/AC 14 Aug: JB/GF 21 Aug: AC 28 Aug: AC/GF It is the holiday season, but if you want a run-around the coaches will be there. Focus will be on learning the rules for the 15 aside game. We'll send out a Teamer for each date, just to get a feel for the numbers. We do have space for new players so bring them along to summer training if you know of anyone. Funday There is also the Mumbles RFC fun day on Saturday 25 August. There is an opportunity for the U12 (that's us) to play 10:00-10:30. So we'll send a teamer out to see who is available. Fixtures First scheduled game of season is on Sunday 2 September vs Lougher at home. Depending on how training goes over summer, we may consider shifting if the coaches are not happy with preparation, particularly with the 8 man scrums.

Presentation Night Wed 30 May

Just a reminder that our presentation night is in the rugby club this Wednesday starting at 18:30. Today is the Pirates' last chance to vote for their player of the year, text me before the end of the day on Monday. Don't forget that I also need two passport sized photos for the new registration forms. thanks

Ospreys Semi Final Playoff, Friday 11th May

The Ospreys have been guaranteed a home tie in the end of season play-offs following the draw between the Scarlets and Munster in Llanelli on Saturday night, so let's pack out the Liberty Stadium and have a fantastic night.


As is the case with all knockout fixtures in both the Heineken Cup and RaboDirect PRO12, these matches are not covered by the season-ticket as the fixtures are tournament hosted outside of the regular season, and not Ospreys hosted fixtures.

Adults £10 – U16s FREE.

K.O. 7.35pm

Grant Broad (U9s) has kindly offered to get hold of tickets for the junior teams, so please let me know by Tuesday 8 May if you want any. To collect tickets meet @ 6.45pm Friday in porch/foyer of Harvester bar/restaurant.