Nickname(s) Bony President Jim Salter Ground Parc Mawr | Location Bonymaen, Wales Founded 1914 | |
Full name Bonymaen Rugby Football Club Coach(es) Allan Powell, Jim Holohan, Andrew Beaujean League(s) Swalec Division One-West Central | ||
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Bonymaen Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in the village of Bon-y-maen, Swansea, South Wales. Bonymaen RFC currently play in the WRU Championship and are a feeder club for the Ospreys. also including teams from under 6s to the under 16s, youth, Bonymaen 2nds and Bonymaen 1sts.
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In May 2006 Bonymaen RFC were one of the 13 'Rebel' clubs who brought a vote of no confidence against the Welsh Rugby Union, which centered on financing and the handling of former coach Mike Ruddock's departure. The vote failed heavily with only 20 votes for the motion and over 300 against.
In the 2006-07 season, Bonymaen RFC won the Division One West League, but were denied promotion to the Premier League as their grounds were deemed to not meet WRU criteria. This ruling was upheld in an EGM by 67% of members.
In the 2014-15 season, Bonymaen RFC won Division 1 West Central, losing just 2 league games all year, both away against Maesteg Quins and Trebanos. This meant a play off with the winners of Division 1 West, Newcastle Emlyn. Played at a neutral venue in Carmarthen, Emlyn won the game and Bony remained in Division 1 West Central for the following season.
In the 2015-16 season Bonymaen enjoyed less success, finishing 5th in the league that they had won the previous year. As of December 19th 2016, they currently sit top of Division 1 West Central.
Calls have been made against how the junior section of the club has been run, false allegations against former chairman of the junior section had meant her appointment was cut short. Since then the club has been taken over by a new chairmen and a whole new board of staff has taken over which has led to the recent decline in junior section succes.
For a club that used to have a very strong junior section is now a club in decline where there is now only 5 junior sections from 8's to 11's and also a 13's. The clubs junior section has seen multiple members of the junior section committee leave their roles. Replaced with people labelled as disasters.
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Notable former players
The below lists players who have played for Bonymaen and have also played rugby at an international level.