3rd September: First and second teams at home tomorrow. League opener for the first XV to Brecon, whilst the seconds take on Maesteg Quins.

1st September: Welsh Assembly grants Planning Appeal from St. Peter’s RFC. <<more>>

30th August: The home trial against Nantfythlyn 3 west went quite well the overall score was 41  16 approx .A couple of new faces on show along with the rest of the boys made for some good signs .nice to see a couple murphys out there competing for a spopt.about 12 new signings all trying for places will make life difficult for selection but gives the right kind of headache before saturdays home fixture against brecon.The rocks dominated up front winning most of the possession and scoring some nice tries. Report by Joe Dunleavy.

23rd August: There will be a players meeting on Saturday the 28^th at 12.30 before the game. BRING OWN SHORTS AND SOCKS. The meeting will be for the youth and senior players to update them on were we are and the plans for the session.

23rd August: The U15s started the season winning a cracking 7s tournament at the club on Sun. Report.

21st August: The youth went down 10-17 this afternoon to a well organised strong blackwood side. Vince said after the game that the Blackwood forwards got the better of ours, but had our backs had more ball we could have created a lot more. Still… lots of promise for St. Peter’s from a young youth side.

Wednesday of this week the youth entertain Newport Saracens – 6.45pm kick off. Further fixtures include Glamorgan Wanderers on 18th September at home in the Cardiff & Distric t Cup, St. Joseph’s on the Harlequins – 11th Sept in a trial game and then St. Joseph’s again in the first league game of the season on 25th.

20th August: Club Captain Announced for 2010-11. Club Captain Evans and second team captain O’Brien. On first hearing this I thought I’d been sent back in time 20 or so years. But this year’s captains are not Michael (Evans)and Lawrence (O’Brien), but taking up the mantle will be Owen (Evans) and Paul (O’Brien). Congratulations to both. Let’s get the season started then and suppor the team at Nantyfyllon on Saturday for the first of two trial matches.

17th August: We have a musician at the club on Sunday 29th August 2010 4pm-7pm – it will be irish songs and some rock and roll.

14th August: An excellent performance from St. Peter’s Youth was not enough to overcome a well drilled Aberdare Youth team at the Harlequins today. Although the scoreline read 5-12 and two tries to one for Aberdare, there is much to praise about the Rocks performance today. Further trial matches against Blackwood next Saturday and Newport Saracens on Wednesday 25th will allow St. Peter’s to blood another six backs into the team.

14th August: Back to back preseason matches agains Nantyfyllon for the next two weekends. Away on 21st and home on 28th.

12th August: Pre-Season Report from John Dunleavy. Things are starting to take shape… more.

8th August: History was made yesterday on Splott Park!!<<photos>> Having made it to the Final of the Welsh Baseball Union Challenge Cup Final for the first time, the Rocks Baseball team did not disappoint. St. Peter’s RFC turned over St. Alban’s, who were the clear favourites by seven men to bat.
All the talk before the game was of a ‘possible’ victory. St. Alban’s, with over half the team as Welsh Internationals, had been tipped to win by a clear margin, whilst the media had almost already thanked the Roath team for turning up. But Darran Sage’s team had other ideas yesterday. St. Alban’s were the first on the bat and Joshua Dunleavy opened with a first round of 5 walking back to their seats. The extremely well supported St. Alban’s team faced an onslaught of bowling first from Joshua and then from Uncle Mark who together sent the buns packing for a well earned 48.
St. Peter’s followed up with a solid performance taking the lead by 14 runs at the half way stage. Noteable batting performances by the other two Dunleavy representatives John and Lewis who added 10 each to the Rocks tally.
In the third quarter, Joshua  and Mark went to work again whittling down the St. Alban’s batsmen. Key high scoring batsmen tried just a little too hard for the Tremorfa side and in so doing gave up their bats far earlier than they were used to. Top catches in the second innings going to Paul Ericson (2), Lewis Dunleavy and Tom O’Brien. Particular note must be made of the slow motion, yet still ballet-style easing to the ground of Mark Dunleavy, slower than a Fred Dibnah chimney, which I am sure by now, he will describe as a diving catch! The earth moved for me.
In the second half of the game tactical subsitutions meant that we took two olduns off (Mabbs and Kelly) and brought two younguns on. The future is bright – the future is green and black.
The excellent fielding performance had placed St. Peter’s firmly in the driving seat, now needing 39 runs to win – which Webby informed me after the game is an odd number in baseball. St. Peter’s were now playing with over half the team eligible for youth baseball, but the batting performance suggested otherwise. Sensible steady batting was called for by the captain Sage. Strange then that he was the only player out in the first round. Further steady batting from all players hitting a succession of single runs drove the heart and soul out of St. Albans.  Finally, having only succeeded in taking three bats from the Rocks the final run was hit – by a team player! He knows who he is. He’s still telling everyone.

Congratulations to all and everyone who made it happen. I am sure that Bill Barrett, in whose name the WBU Challenge Cup in now dedicated, would have been delighted to see the cup come the the Harlequins.

6th August: ST PETER’S JUNIOR COACHING CLINIC - 11am on Sunday 15th August at the Clubhouse. Coaching Clinic headed by Cardiff Blues and Wales coach Gareth Baber. This will also be a registration day for the coming season. Could all junior players please attend.

4th August: WBU Final – Sunday 8th August 12 noon knock off. St. Peter’s v St. Albans. Splott Park.

28th July: England Bowled over by Rocsks’ Joshua Dunleavy. Congratulations to Joshua Dunleavy this weekend who bowled out England B for just 18 runs at the England – Wales Baseball B international in Liverpool. Also well done to Rocks boy Luke O’Brien who hit 18 runs for the Wales under 16’s team.

Other Baseball news from Joe Dunleavy… After a successful weekend in Liverpool we were straight back into action at the harlis where the rocks faced up to a strong grange catholics side in the semi finals of the cup.The rocks baatted first and were all out for 21 runs and it looked like an earlly finish but some cracking bowling from mark was equally backed up in the field sending the catholics back for 25.The second innings the rocks solid batting off many rattled up 85 run with 3 men still going declared leaving 80 to win.Although the catholics hit out they could not catch up finishing with a total of 57 runs and put the rocks into the final against st albans who beat the other grange side’ cheers joe d

21st July: Congratulations to Joshua Dunleavy and Luke O’Brien, who have both been selected to play for Wales  Baseball team, this coming Saturday 24th July in Liverpool.

Luke, who plays in the Rocks senior team, has been selected to play for Wales Under 16’s.

Joshua, who has been selected for the senior Wales B team, is a product of the extremely strong baseball section at St. Peter’s RFC, having already played for Wales at under 14 and 16 level. Whilst it has not yet been confirmed, at 17, Joshua must be in contention for the honour of being the youngest ever senior player at International Level for Wales. Joshua will be bowling for the Wales B team on Saturday. This is a great testement to the hard work not only of Joshua himself, but for the whole of the Rocks Baseball section.

15th July: AGM Friday 16th July 2010. 6.30pm at the club.

15th July: A good turn out for the first couple of training sessions this week has seen over 30 seniors and a good number of youth players already working hard at the Harlequins. It’s always good to see new faces at the Rocks alongside a really strong turnout from the backbone of last season’s first and second teams – One Club!

Moving on from St. Peter’s this year sees Kris Barry cross the city to Cardiff RFC. Everyone from the club would like to pass on their sincerest best wishes to Kris and wish him every success with his career at Cardiff RFC. Kris has successfully progressed through all levels at St. Peter’s and is a credit to the club. It will be a hard task to replace him, but we move on and work hard, knowing full well that the remaining players from last season will all continue to show the passion and commitment to the club. Also parting companywitht he Rocks this season is Luke Reardon, an unsung hero Cardiff RFC have clearly missed out on. Luke, is currently training with the club until September before joining to the forces. The two forwards departing at once will leave a hole that will take a lot of filling but as the old saying goes ‘life goes on’ and who knows – maybe we will see them together in the future. Both players, and many quality players in the present seniors, have developed through the Junior and Youth teams and are a great advert for our club structure.

The Youth have had training for the last couple of weeks and have had good numbers. It was their first year at that level last season which saw them coming up against boys a couple of years older but they did more than hold their own and with that experience they will certainly prove to be a force to deal with.

12th July: St. Peter’s RFC are delighted to announce that this season we will be coached by another past player of the Club. John Dunleavy takes the reins for the coming season following in the excellent footsteps of Chris Churcher and team.

John’s involvement with St. Peter’s RFC stretches back over 30 years since he started with the club playing for the Under 7’s. Son of Joe Dunleavy, John played for St. Peter’s Juniors through to the Youth Team. During this time he received a number of Cardiff School’s honours before progressing to the Rocks first XV. A member of the world famous team which beat Cardiff. I’ll just say that again… that beat Cardiff 14-16, John went on to play for the Arms Park team and also Glamorgan Wanderers and Dinas Powys.

Further honours include Glamorgan County and East District caps. John captained the Welsh Baseball (B) representing his country on four occasions. He has had many years of coaching Dinas Powys mini rugby at age 7 up to 16 with great success.

He is looking forward with great optimism to bringing his ideas to light and adding flare to the talented side following on from previous coaches, Chris Churcher, Timmy Carless and Paul Glover.

John is married to Lisa; they have two sons – Joshua and Lewis.

4th July: Training starting Tuesday 13th July. Already the season looks good with early rumblings of new forthcoming signings ‘hopefully 3 trial matches as last season with maybe a trip on top. Coach – John Dunleavy – is looking for a strong squad of players in the Firsts and Seconds all vying for places. The doors always open for new and old players with the youth breathing down their necks. This year we celebrate our 125th year as St. Peter’s RFC and we are hoping to welcome a few of the big boys to our own patch. The youth team are becoming stronger many of the squad in their second year. They too will be looking to take a few scalps. So lets start the season with a bang – 6.30pm Tuesday 13th July.

REQUEST: Received by email… Does anyone have a fixture list from the season 1985-85? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks Kevin