Bright start for Llanrumney gives Cachia real hope

LLANRUMNEY are confident of a successful season ahead in Three East Central C and their weekend performance against Cardiff Internationals has only increased that belief.

After winning their opening games against Hirwaun (17-11) and Ferndale (12-7), Llanrumney were brought back to reality with a 22-7 defeat to Cardiff Saracens.

“Out of the three sides we’ve played previously, two of them got relegated from a higher division and we beat both of them,” stated club secretary Patrick Cachia.

“The game against Cardiff Saracens we shouldn’t have lost, we dominated it but we only had 16 players.

“They only scored in the last five minutes, two mistakes by us.

“With our full squad out we will probably beat them down our place, I’m confident of that.

“They depend on students and we’ve got them on December 29, when most of their students have gone back home.”

Llanrumney bounced back in emphatic style with a 13-try 81-0 blitz against winless Cardiff Internationals.

Cachia admitted he expected to pick up a win but not by such a huge scoreline.

Kieran Ford helped himself to a hat-trick while Lial Greedy was at the double.

Nico Fowler, Tom Phillips, Joel Garcia, Ryan Gray, Alex Vickery and Luke Acreman also crashed over.

Two penalty tries completed the try scoring with Acreman wrapping up the win from the tee.

“Put it this way, we should beat them every time. The amount we score, we don’t know,” added Cachia.

“We played them last year. The game down there was pretty close we beat them 24-7 but then when they came up to us we beat them by 50-odd.

“Saturday we knew we were going to win but I was expecting a 50 pointer, not 80.

“The backs and forwards were just scoring tries, it was unbelievable.”

That victory lifted them up to second place, three points behind leaders Maesteg, and Cachia admitted he expected Llanrumney to stay in the promotion places.

“I think we are well capable of going for promotion,” he said.

“We are well capable of beating everybody in this division. But it all depends on if we have people away working. If we’ve got our full squad out every week I’d be confident that we’ll win this league.

“They are mostly youngsters. “We’ve got a couple of older heads for experience, which you need.

“I’d like to see us go up but it wouldn’t be disastrous if we didn’t.”