RugbyRebels

Changing demographics, or is interest waning in the valleys?

A Welsh rugby club with a proud history of punching above its weight to produce Wales and Lions stars could be forced to fold.... after having just THREE players training this summer.

Pyle RFC are due to kick off their Division Three West Central A season at home against Swansea Uplands on Saturday, September 2, but have taken to social media to reveal their current plight in raising a team.

The Mid Glamorgan club have a proud history in the Welsh game winning the prestigious Silver Ball in 1976 and '78 as well as lifting the Division Five Central crown in 2009.

But they're now in real danger of folding after 86 years in existence.

They have produced a number of Welsh internationals in that time with arguably their greatest player being full-back Jack Bassett, who played five times for the 1930 Lions in New Zealand and Australia.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugb ... h-13411345

Mind you, things are looking as bleak in the 13 man code: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugb ... o-13405970

Sad times.

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Aye. Did my level 1 there a few years back. Shame to see clubs like that on the verge of folding .

Fortunes change and it is sad to see...
They seemed to lose a whole reem of players at the end of the season when I was trying to see if there was an active youth side. My beleif is that is the only way to get a source of new players . Certainly where I coached before it was the only way for the club to survive.