New Tredegar Rugby Football Club is a Welsh

Rugby union in Wales

Rugby union is the national sport of Wales and is considered a large part of national culture. Rugby is thought to have reached Wales in the 1850s, with the national body, the Welsh Rugby Union being formed in 1881...

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Rugby union

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 club team based in New Tredegar

New Tredegar

New Tredegar is a former coal mining community in the Rhymney Valley, Caerphilly county borough, Wales , within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire....

. Today, New Tredegar RFC plays in the Welsh Rugby Union

Welsh Rugby Union

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, Division Four East League and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons

Newport Gwent Dragons

Newport Gwent Dragons are one of the four professional Rugby Union regional teams in Wales. They are jointly owned by Newport RFC and the Welsh Rugby Union and play all their home games at Rodney Parade, Newport. They play in the RaboDirect Pro12, the Anglo-Welsh Cup and the Heineken Cup...

. At present the club runs two senior sides and a youth side.

New Tredegar RFC started life in 1977 when it was decided that a senior XV team was required to permit the youth players, who had a team in since the early 1960s, to play locally at a higher level. By 1980 the club was fielding a second senior XV and after joining the Gwent District league in 1994 the team won their first piece of silverware, the Cyrus Davies cup. The club achieved WRU status that year and in the 1995/96 season the club was placed in the lower rungs of the official Welsh leagues. Although they lost their opening match to Machen

Machen RFC

Machen Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Machen near the city of Newport. Machen RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons....

, they eventually gained in confidence to win the league in their first season. In 1999 the club managed to buy the Liberal Club which has now become their headquarters.

Club honours

• 1995/96 WRU Welsh League Division Eight East - Champions

Players

Name	Position
Alex Davies	Fullback	1st XV captain
Keri Vaughan	Centre	2nd XV captain

Colin Jones	Prop
Dai Greening	Hooker/Prop
Huw Thomas	Prop
Daniel Davies	Hooker
James Watkins	Hooker
Ben James	Prop
Dean Dauncey	Prop
Kevin Osborne	Prop
Ceiron Harris	Hooker

Name	Position
Cris Burke	Second Row/Prop
Dai Harry	Second row
Liam Miles	Second Row
Mike Harris	Second Row
Steve Osborn	Second Row
Stuart Hares	Second Row/Flanker

Name	Position
Marc Vaughan	Flanker/Second Row/Number 8
Phillip Davies	Number 8/Second Row/Hooker
Wayne Randall	Number 8
Ronnie Kynes	Flanker/Hooker
Andrew Thomas	Number 8/Flanker
Brett Thomas	Number 8/Flanker
Brian Williams	Number 8/Flanker
Ben Romais	Flanker

Name	Position
Ryan Mann	Scrum Half
Terry Cooper	Scrum Half/Outside Half
Scott Thomas	Scrum Half
Stuart Vile	Scrum Half
Dewi Winstone	Outside Half/Flanker
Craig Thomas	Outside Half

Name	Position
Ricky Hawkins	Centre
Kevin Williams	Centre
Mike Evans	Centre
James Ball	Centre/Flanker
Hywel Evans	Centre/Wing
Chris Kerby	Centre/Wing
Neil Kerby	Centre
Dean Jones

Name	Position
Shaun Evans	Wing/Centre
Wayne Evans	Wing
John Williams	Wing/Centre
Lloyd Richards	Wing
Che Edwards	Wing/Centre/Outside Half
Colin Macarther	Wing/Centre
Steve Lewis	Wing
Lee Davies	Wing/Flanker
Craig Morgan	Wing

Name	Position
Rhys Walbeoff	Fullback
Owain Harry	Fullback/Wing