Cefn Cribwr AC

24/08/2025

24/08/2025

Cefn Cribwr RFC – The Riders Win on the Road

Following last week’s home victory over Brackla, the Riders made the three-hour journey to Witney RFC in Oxford. With a bus full of players and supporters, there was a real pre-season buzz around the camp.

Despite travelling with a depleted squad to face a well-established Witney side, the Riders started strongly, controlling the set piece and dominating the lineout. However, they were unable to capitalise on early pressure, and Witney struck first with a converted try to lead 7–0.

The Riders responded superbly. Their powerful driving lineout produced two quick tries, both finished by the impressive Dylan Thomas, better known to the squad as ‘Rocky’.
At the break, Cefn Cribwr led 10–7.

The second half began with the Riders again on the front foot. A powerful run from centre Lewis Anderson, who enjoyed a very solid game, created the platform for a sweeping team move finished in the corner by winger Bailey John. 17–7 to the Riders.

Witney then launched a sustained period of attack, testing the Cefn defence to its limits. Led by talisman and former Witney player Lloyd Allen, the Riders produced some heroic defensive stands, but the home side eventually broke through with a well-worked try to close the gap to 17–12.

With the game finely balanced heading into the final quarter, both teams traded heavy blows in attack and defence. It was outside-half Ifan Rossister who provided the decisive moment, chipping cleverly over the Witney defence. Winger Bailey John was on hand to collect and score his second try of the match, sealing the victory for Cefn Cribwr. Extras added by Rossister

Final score: Cefn Cribwr RFC 24– 12 Witney RFC

Lots of great performances but we picked the following.

A Big thank you to Justin Rees and the Swan in aberkenfig for sponsoring our Man of the match award.

MOTM - Lloyd Allen player sponsor Great days Golf

TMOM - Alex underhill player sponsor JDU Tennis
( first game of senior rugby and hasn’t played in six years, brave as a lion )

A fantastic day for the Riders against an established Division two English side, with both clubs mixing their squads in true pre-season spirit.

A huge thank you to Witney RFC for their excellent hospitality — we’re already looking forward to planning a double-header next summer. Best of luck for the season ahead, and see you next year! 💪

24/08/2025

Live music, 5pm today at the Ath!

22/08/2025

⚔️ NEXT GAME ALERT ⚔️

We’re on the road this weekend for a friendly clash as the riders take on Witney RFC 🏉

📍 Witney RFC
📅 Saturday 23rd August
⏰ 2:30 PM KO

The lads are ready to put in a big shift — let’s go! 🔥💛❤️

21/08/2025

For those with seats booked on the bus to Witney this Saturday, we depart HQ at 10am.
Theme is crap shirts and bucket hats.
🎩👒🥂🍹👕👕

20/08/2025

A massive thank you to Wild Roots Wales for sponsoring Andrew John for the 2025/26 Season.

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19/08/2025

There are a small number of tickets left for the bus for our Witney RFC V Cefn Cribwr AC this Saturday.
Bus leaves HQ 10am
Tickets are £10 for a return.
Dm if interested.

19/08/2025

Tickets for Wales’ 2026 Guinness Six Nations home games are available to purchase from Cefn Cribwr Athletic Club for full club members.

On Friday 22 August 2025 Clubs will have an exclusive window of priority to order tickets anywhere available in the stadium via the E-ticketing website directly.

If you are a full member and would like to place your order indicating your preference of price category and if you know where you would like to be seated, please notify the Club ticket Secretary at CCACTickets@hotmail.com by 5th October 2025. The sooner you place your order, the better the selection of seats available!

Additionally, for full Club Members there’s an opportunity to order the tickets directly post 1st Sept 2025.

Following the feedback from clubs, and in an effort to simplify the process, for this year’s 2026 Guinness Men’s Six Nations the WRU are pleased to announce that club members will have an opportunity to order tickets directly via the E-ticketing website from the 1st of September ahead of public sale.

Each Club will be given a unique URL link which can be shared by the club’s ticketing secretary to club members, these tickets will then be fulfilled directly to the purchaser rather than through the club’s digital ticketing portal.

This process is designed to reduce the risk of clubs having unsold tickets, minimise the amount of manual work and to reduce the number of tickets the club needs to manually fulfil.

More information on this process will be shared soon and if you are interested in this method, please notify the Club Ticket secretary at CCACTickets@hotmail.com

Please note that all ticket orders must be paid for upfront. This policy is in place due
to previous instances where tickets were requested, but then not collected or paid for.

Many thanks

Cefn Cribwr Athletic Club

18/08/2025

Riders Open Season with Home Win!

Cefn ‘Riders’ kicked off their 2025/26 season at Cae Gof with a win over a tough and determined Brackla side. The visitors, who have recruited well over the summer, arrived with a big pack and some dangerous backs, making it a great early test for the Riders.

In glorious sunshine and in front of a bumper crowd, the home side ran in 6 tries to Brackla’s 4. Both teams agreed to play three 30-minute sessions, which made things a little stop-start at times, but it gave Cefn the chance to use over 30 squad players – brilliant to see so many new boys getting a run-out .

Try scorers:
• Ifan Rossiter x2
• Kyle Clatworthy
• Scott Walker
• Cam Steele
• Tom Carpenter

Plenty of positives to take, especially with more players joining the squad in the coming weeks – competition is only going to get stronger leading into the full league campaign.

Huge thanks to Brackla for the game and best of luck for their season in Division 4 East Central.

Next up, the Riders are on the road with a trip across the bridge to face English Division 2 side Whitney RFC .

18/08/2025

We have been in touch with the dog warden who will be spending time at Cae Gof given the recent spate of dog fouling.

16/08/2025

GAME DAY!!