CWMLLYNFELL RFC

The Gore rugby ground in Builth on the banks of the River Wye in early September or late March has often been a happy hunting ground for the Blues with the mild sunny weather and firm ground letting Cwm play its brand of open attractive rugby

However a visit on a cold January bank holiday with snow still on the fringes of the park ,the pitch very hard in places and a bitter wind sweeping down from the Beacons is a different matter and the Blues despite leading until mid way through the second half were in the end well beaten by a dour forward orientated Bulls side.

One knows what to expect these days from a Jeremy Pugh coached Bulls side - constant pressure from a massive scrum with the ball kept tight and the home side egged on by the ex Neath & Welsh International's somewhat loud colorful language and expalatives !!

One also knows how to beat them - keep the ball in hand, play a high tempo game and kick deep keeping the ball in the Builth half as one cant score push over tries from 50 meters
 
Cwm in the frist half played to the plan but could not take some try scoring chances . Loose kicks also let Builth into the game when Cwm appered to have overlaps and despite possesion and most of the terratory all Cwm could muster by half time were 4 Peter Thomas penalties . Builth rumbled over for a try frm a lineout and added a penalty to make it 10-12 to the visitors at the break
 
Builth changed their props at half time and as scrum pressure grew the home side slowly took control. Cwm's defence held up well and after a further penalty by Builth, Thomas put over a monster kick from near the half way to make it 15-13 as the final quarter started
Builth claimed the restart and after a period of scrums in the vsitors half - what else !! a speculative kick ahead by the Bulls follwing a Cwm 22m restart won a line out in the Cwm 22 with some 8 minutes left and the Builth scrum scrum and scrum tactic soon followed .Cwm had a chance to clear downfeild but tried to run form deep and the chance was gone !
Cwms scrum started to break up under this relentless prseeure and a try by the home no 8 followed to put the Bulls in command with a penalty streching the lead and taking the bonus point away from the Blues.

Builth then turned the screws and a a second try followed at the death after the Builth pack had pushed the Blues back and back . The converstion went over and the ref blew for time - good win for the home team and Cwm were left pointless for the first time this season

Final Score Builth Wells 30 - Cwm 15