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Subject: Dunvant

Author:
Mike

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Date Posted: 04:56:51 05/12/02 Sun
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So, that's it, Aberavon scored their 14 tries (surprise, surprise, NOT!) and we are condemned to another season of 1st division rugby.

Although it was a great effort in the last few games of the season to see us playing exciting open running rugby and boosting our try count we have only ourselves to blame for not being the champions. These were the critical stages in our season :-

1. Losing at home to Llandovery and Rumney

2. Away defeats at Whitland and Treorchy
(The Aberavon defeat is excusable as they were at least a decent side)

3. Our inability to kill teams off. How many times did we get 30pts or so up in a game and ease off in the last quarter of an hour when we should have scored more tries?

4. So many needless replacements in matches, could have a bearing on 3 above

5. The failure for most of the season to address the lineout problem. With Chris Thomas throwing in for the latter part of the season we looked solid in this department, but it should have been resolved much earlier in the campaign.

Congratulations to Aberavon but one thing which now worries me is if we do win the 1st division next season do we go up or are the WRU going to bring in the 8 team premier league and deny anyone from outside next seasons premier the opportunity to win into it?

It is something we should be concerned about, we have shown all season that we are a club to be feared and respected (just ask Swansea) and we deserve to be competing at the highest level but I fear that the goalposts could be about to be moved bigtime and we may not be a part of it.

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