 Welcome back to a few short tales to highlight the good nature that still exists in our county’s sporting fraternity!
Pink boots galore at St Davids
Jack Dudley has served St Davids superbly as a player and coach for well over two decades and is rightly regarded a tough old boy – so you can imagine the uproar when Big Jack recently turned up in the changing room and put on his new PINK BOOTS!
It seems that they were a present from wife Yvonne, who was either trying to drag her feller into the 21st century or making up a cunning plan to have him laughed out of rugby so that he could go shopping on Saturday afternoons!
It seems that either way, Jack has caught the eye and when Pembroke played at St Davids a few weeks ago he bumped into fellow coach Ossie Boswell, and for once the Pembroke coach was lost for words at what he saw. Ossie readily admitted that he wouldn’t wear pink boots if they were the only ones left but was delighted to say that he would have liked his old pal to have worn them when they played against each other so the referee would know when Jack was giving Ossie a friendly kick in the back!
. . . . . It seems that Jack’s pink boots are the envy of some other players because at a recent away match, when Jack wasn’t down to play, they were borrowed by big Chris Morgan, who like Jack is a 22 stone-plus player and not one you would normally expect to see in such gaudy footwear. He protested that he had forgotten his own boots but Jack and Co could see that Big Morgs was rather quick in suggesting he use his coach’s footwear! What on earth is happening to the tough guys at St Davids?
One nice young lady trapped in a changing room!
The old song ‘Two old ladies locked in a lavatory’ took on a new meaning recently at Haverfordwest Rugby Club when their seconds played their counterparts from Trimsaran – although on this occasion it was one very nice lady who got trapped in a changing room!
Delyth Summons, who does such a great job as Hon Treasurer at Haverfordwest RFC, travelled with some other supporters to watch the match at Trimsaran but hit a little trouble when she needed to visit the ladies’ but there were none nearby. A well-meaning Blues’ supporter took her to the changing rooms and said he would keep guard outside but he was called away to help out – and it was then that Delyth hit her problem because there was no handle on the door, it was wedged too tightly for her to open it – and she was well and truly locked in!
Her shouts were to no avail and so tried to phone some of her fellow supporters but Shay Buckley and Nigel Griffiths didn’t have their mobile phones on, whilst club chairman Gareth Griffiths hasn’t come into the mobile phone age quite yet! Poor Delyth had visions of missing the whole match but luckily a knight in shining armour came to her rescue and she was eventually re-installed back onto the touchline – and cheered the Blues’ 2nd XV on with her usual charm and good humour!
Several Bluebirds get caught in their changing room
There was a moment of drama at a recent training session held at the Bridge Meadow Stadium when Haverfordwest County’s second string found themselves locked in and had to climb out via a fanlight!
The Blues’ Pembrokeshire League team were due to take part in a training match with the Welsh Premier squad and had gone into a room for a bit of a pep talk with their coaches – but when one of them tried to go out he was unable to open the door. Other would-be he-men tried to open the door but all was in vain – and even when stadium manager Eddie Bunston and his assistants arrived with a screwdriver, hammer and other sundry tools there was still no escape!
So the lads showed their physical dexterity by escaping via the fan-light and I’m glad to say that all ended well because Eddie and Co eventually discovered the fault and got the door open. They had their legs pulled about being afraid to come out and face their first-team counterparts but they took it all with very good grace and even managed to show their capabilities before returning to get changed – via the door!
Reds supporter silenced
I recently travelled to Stebonheath Park to watch Haverfordwest County take on home club Llanelli, who have some of the most vociferous supporters in the Welsh Premier League – and they are not slow to berate the referee or opposing management on the touchline below.
One of the loudest members of the band at the back of the stand regularly shouted something less than friendly in the direction of the Bluebirds’ management, singling out then manager Gavin Chesterfield for his invective at every opportunity. But he almost choked near the end of the game when a Haverfordwest supporter, sitting below the group in the stand, quietly told him that he would have to shout a little louder and when he asked why was told that Gavin Chesterfield was away on honeymoon so wasn’t actually at the match. There were hoots of laughter from the other Llanelli fans and the culprit also had the good grace to laugh – and perhaps he’ll think twice before he shouts out rubbish next match!
 Johnny Cash at Phoenix Park
John Deason has been known well known in local sporting circles as the manager of Sport Pembrokeshire at County Hall for many years but he has also been a prime mover of the Phoenix Project in Goodwick as well as being a great supporter of Goodwick United, where one of his roles is to take the collecting box around at half time in matches to raise a few bob for Goodwick. He’s even got his own little wooden box, neatly emblazoned with the name of the club on it, and as a result of his efforts has been dubbed ‘Johnny Cash’ by the old-timers who stand on the touch line and dutifully cough up their money because there is no denying Mr Deason. So well done Mr D – and there’s not many clubs who can say that they have Johnny Cash sitting on their management committee!
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