Pyle RFC

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Pyle RFC
Full namePyle Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)The Pigs
Location Pyle, Wales
Ground(s)Brynglas Field
Coach(es)Gareth Cox
Captain(s)Lee Radford
League(s) WRU Division Two West Central
2021/228th [1]

Pyle Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Pyle, Wales, UK. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Ospreys. [2]

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In the 1920s, Jack Bassett, later the Wales captain, would play for the club before moving to Penarth. In the 1970s Pyle won the Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy on two occasions.

Club honours

Notable former players

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References

  1. ↑ "WRU official site". Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  2. ↑ BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC . Retrieved 5 October 2008.


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