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Ronnie’s rattled by mobile phones
If you should bump into Haverfordwest County youth coach Ronnie Beynon in the next few weeks then don’t rattle him by mentioning a mobile phone because he has certainly been under pressure from them.
All was going well until Ronnie, who does a huge range of jobs at the Bridge Meadow as part of his willing nature, was cleaning the changing rooms after a match involving the youth team and out plopped his mobile phone from his pocket – straight into the bucket of hot water he was just placing his mop in!
He dived to retrieve it but even Ronnie wasn’t quick enough and after a few curses about his bad luck discovered that the smart mobile phone was now rendered useless, as was proved when he tried drying it out. Needless to say, there was little sympathy from Rob Summons, Barry Vaughan, Eddie Bunston, Kevin Bryce or even Richard Friday in the office, just pointed comments like,
“Is that a mobile phone I can hear drowning?”
Second time unlucky
Ronnie used a cheap replica phone until the insurance coughed up for a new one, whereupon his problems restarted because he took the youth team to Swansea for a match, dropped them all off, returned the mini-bus to the hire company – and then found his sparkling new phone had gone AWOL from his track suit pocket!
He retraced his steps at the club without success but it was too late to do anything more that night so he endured a sleepless night. All’s well that ends well, however, because when he contacted the bus people the next day they finally found his mobile phone – tucked securely down alongside the driver’s seat.
So if you see Ronnie you might even find him with a large chain sticking out of his pocket – because the Bridge Meadow crowd were threatening to buy him a large ball and chain to keep his phone attached to!
‘Kirks’ lights up the town –
and keeps the police busy
Another Haverfordian who has endured his share of leg-pulling around the festive season was Phil Kirkby, the ace batsman with Haverfordwest CC who has done such a good job keeping the town’s Christmas lights looking superb with his electrical company.
But keeping them so well looked after hasn’t been without incident because he is called out whenever there are problems with bulbs and does the maintenance job with the good humour that is part of his make up – as he was one night on the scaffolding outside Munt’s the Jewellers, the ‘Shop with a Clock on the Hill’, when some lights failed to function.
He was ably assisted by Mike Smith, the veteran footballer who manages the Cricket Club soccer side, but when they moved to check the lights in another part of town they suddenly found themselves dealing with several policemen in several cars with flashing lights!
It transpired that someone had spotted ‘Kirks’ on Munt’s scaffolding and naturally assumed that he was a burglar, phoned the police, and the rest was something he won’t forget as he had to explain to the boys in blue that he was simply doing a good job. Mind you, looking at Messrs Kirkby and Smith it would be easy to imagine them with black masks, striped shirts and a ‘Swag’ bag apiece because they are both larger than life characters, to say the least!
Will proves doubters wrong
There was a lovely moment when Whitland RFC recently played Felinfoel and won 18-12 in awful conditions.
There was a howling gale and heavy rain when Whitland full back Will Davies received the ball in broken play and set himself up for a drop goal attempt – and a groan from the partisan Borderers’ supporters because Will would be the first to admit that he is a far better handler of the ball than he is a kicker. The well-known chairman of Pembroke County Cricket Club, an avid Whitland fan, uttered the immortal words, “Good God! No, Will, no!”
As Will sent the ball unerringly between the posts for three points that any top outside half would of been proud of.
But as our chairman friend said with a chuckle – “Sometimes it’s nice to see the odd 1% happen, rather than the usual 99%!”
So well done, Will – and keep showing them how to do it!
Peter phones up to apologise
– a day late!
It seems that Haverfordwest is the place to be for faux pas because another Haverfordwest Cricket Club member was having such a good time sunning himself abroad that it affected his time clock badly.
Peter Lewis was holidaying with his charming wife Pat in Tenerife for ten days, during which time The Town cricketers and supporters were holding their Annual General Meeting, and as an avid former player and newly-elected trustee he telephoned from abroad, defying the cost, to make his apologies.
Unfortunately, the only problem with that is the fact that when he rang through to club steward Mark Conybeare the AGM had already been held the evening before.
Gentleman that he is, Mark didn’t have the heart to tell Peter that it was too late for apologies and wasn’t until Peter returned to the cold of Pembrokeshire that he was told of his error, and since gently reminded on a regular basis that the club expects more from its trustees! Never mind Peter, there’s always next year to show that you can keep to time, as long as you are in this country!
Brian’s doing well, back in Scotland
This week we were delighted to receive an e-mail from Brian Cutler, who once terrorised defences in Pembrokeshire as a top goal scorer but then returned to his home in Kintyre, Argyle some 15 years ago.
Brian says he looks at our site every week to find out what is going on in Pembrokeshire Sport and was delighted to see a recent article on his old pal Des Shanklin.
We are hoping to talk to Brian soon for our ‘Where are they now?’ feature and it is nice to know that we are being read in France, USA, Malta, England and other places. So if you have someone living elsewhere with a sporting attachment to Pembrokeshire then let us know and we’ll contact them.
HAVE A GOOD SPORTING MONTH!
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