Trial postponed until Sunday

Tonight's Scropions trial has been postponed again due to a little bit of snow that has been falling in this area.

This has been rearranged again for Sunday with a 1pm start at the same venue, University of Glamorgan playing fields in Trefforest.

Trials still on for tomorrow (Wednesday)

South Wales Scorpions’ player trial is still on for tomorrow at the University of Glamorgan playing fields in Treforest. All players are to meet at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

Trialists are advise to keep note of the www.scorpionsrl.com website should there be any further updates due to change in weather conditions.

500 members reached on Facebook

South Wales Scorpions RLFC are delighted to have recruited 500 Facebook members in their first week and the club hopes to reach 1,500 by the time the 2010 season starts on Sunday 28 February with a home game against Workington Town at The Gnoll (kick-off 2pm).

"To have recruited over 500 fans in such a short space of time with no games being played yet just shows how popular that the Scorpions will be," said Scorpions director Mark Rowley. "We will be making further announcements regarding our coaching staff and other parts of the club in January, and we've had an excellent response for our open trials for players in Trefforest on January 10th. We've had a lot of positive messages from potential supporters and we all now can't wait for February 28th."

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South Wales to hold open trials for players

South Wales RLFC are holding an open trial for players for their first season on Sunday 10th January at 1pm at the University in Glamorgan playing fields in Trefforest.

The newly formed club, who will play their home matches out of Neath RFC, open their inaugural Co-operative Championship 1 campaign with a home game against former Super League club, Workington Town, at The Gnoll on Sunday 28 February (kick-off 2pm).

Players need to apply by filling in an form. These will be online by the end of this week at www.cymrurl.com and on the new South Wales RLFC website that will go live next week.

"The open trial is for League or union players to come along,” said South Wales director Mark Rowley. “The player base is fantastic here in South Wales. We know that we'll be able to use players who were in the Crusaders reserve team last season but there is still a lot of untapped talent out there.

"We'll be a 99 percent Welsh club which will be good for our identity. We won't be importing any players at all from Australia or New Zealand. We want Welsh players to go on and play Super League.

"Moving from the Conference to the Super League is too big a step. They need this middle ground in order to go on and play Super League and then for Wales. As a nation, we’re building towards qualification for the 2011 Four Nations and 2013 World Cup and this club is an important stepping stone in player development."

"We are hoping to develop links where players can travel back and forth. We’ll be more than a feeder side as players will be able to travel both ways. If the Welsh youngsters are not being used by the Crusaders, hopefully we can get them back.

"We’re hoping to be good enough to gain promotion to the Championship within two years and in six years time, we want to be able to compete for a Super League licence. I'm confident that we have the structure here to enable that to happen.”