Our secretary Mike Price continues his series chronicling Neath's Welsh title wins with Part 11 – season 1990/91. Welsh rugby changed in 1990/91 when National Leagues were introduced but it could not halt the march of Neath RFC who were once
Our secretary Mike Price continues his series examining Neath's Welsh title wins with Part 9 – season 1988/89. After winning their ninth Welsh championship in 1986/87, 1987/88 was considered something of a failure by the demanding Blacks. Finishing second to the
Neath added to their championship triumphs of 1909/10, 1910/11 and 1928/29 by winning the “Western Mail” title again in 1933/34. Captained by Wales threequarter Arthur Hickman, the record was not quite as spectacular as that set by Tom Evans' side but
Neath's third Welsh Championship title win was their most comprehensive yet. In 1928/29, former Army boxing champion Tom Evans and his men took Welsh rugby by storm and, so dominant were they, that they bore the hallmark of champions long before
Having won the title in 1909/10, the challenge for Frank Rees' men at Neath was to do it all over again in 1910/11. However, four pre-Christmas defeats by Leicester, Pontypool, Newport and Cardiff put the Welsh All Blacks on the back-foot
Today, with no rugby to look forward to for a while, we travel back 99 years to Easter Tuesday, 1921. Easter was early that year - the Tuesday was March 29th – a date to remember as it was on that
Easter Saturday is always a special day for Neath RFC for it marks the return of the Welsh All Blacks to The Gnoll after just over 10 years playing at the nearby Bird-in-Hand Field. 1898 was the year in which Neath
NEATH 14 CARDIFF METROPOLITAN 48 A magnificent second-half performance by Cardiff Met carried away the glory from a game which until half-time had seemed delicately poised and it left Neath with a whole lot more head-scratching. On a cold evening, perfect for
NEATH 23 BARGOED 40 Bargoed kept the pressure on Championship leaders Pontypool with this well-merited win at The Gnoll – but Neath gave them a shock and were very much in the game until Bargoed's well-drilled, burly forwards strangled them in
Neath make four changes for the visit to Maesteg Quins on Saturday (kick off 2.30pm). The Neath team will be :- 15 Iestyn Morgan; 14 Luke Griffiths, 13 Jarrad Rees, 12 Matthew Pearce, 11 James Roberts; 10 Jordan Rees, 9 Nicky Griffiths;