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2004–05 Llanelli Scarlets Season
The 2004–05 season was the second season in the history of the Scarlets, Llanelli Scarlets rugby union team. They competed in the Pro14, Celtic League, in which they finished in fifth place, as well as the Celtic Cup (rugby union), Celtic Cup and Heineken Cup. They reached the final of the Celtic Cup, losing 27–16 to Munster Rugby, Munster at Lansdowne Road in Dublin, but won just two matches in their Heineken Cup pool, finishing third behind Stade Toulousain, Toulouse and Northampton Saints. Celtic League Matches Table Celtic Cup Heineken Cup Pool stage The Scarlets were drawn into Pool 3 for the 2004–05 Heineken Cup. For the second season in a row, they were paired with Northampton Saints, along with Stade Toulousain, Toulouse from France and Glasgow Warriors, Glasgow from Scotland. They began the pool stage on 22 October with a narrow 9–6 defeat at home to Toulouse, a game they should have won thanks to two missed try-scoring opportunities. The following week they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Jenkins
Gareth John James Jenkins (born 11 September 1951) is a Welsh former rugby union player and coach. Born in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, he played for Llanelli RFC for 17 years from his debut in September 1969. He was appointed coach of the club in 1982. In 2003, he was appointed as coach of the newly formed Scarlets, Llanelli Scarlets regional side, guiding them to the United Rugby Championship, Celtic League title in their first season. Following the resignation of Steve Hansen as coach of the Wales national rugby union team, Wales national team, Jenkins applied for the position and was one of two finalists only for Mike Ruddock to be appointed without applying. Jenkins finally took over as Wales coach when Ruddock resigned during the 2006 Six Nations Championship, 2006 Six Nations, but his tenure was unsuccessful, winning just six of his 20 games in charge. He was sacked on 30 September 2007, the day after Wales failed to qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2007 Rugby World C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesi Finau
Salesi Finau (born 5 May 1973) is a Tongan former rugby footballer. He represented Tonga in both the rugby league and rugby union sides. Background Finau in Neiafu (Vava'u), Neiafu, Vava'u, Tonga. Rugby league career Salesi began his career with the Canberra Raiders, and played in the Tonga national rugby league team at the 1995 World Cup. After impressing during the tournament he signed for Warrington Wolves in the Super League, Rugby union career Club In late 1998 Finau signed for Welsh rugby union side Scarlets, Llanelli Scarlets under coach Gareth Jenkins. Finau made 203 appearances for the side over the next six-year, becoming an instrumental team player, playing in 3 European Cup semi-finals and 2 Celtic League Titles, before ending his contract by mutual consent in September 2005. He then signed for Bath Rugby under John Connolly (rugby), John Connolly, spending a season at the West Country club before moving to French side CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, Bourgoin. Finau had a suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connacht Rugby
Connacht Rugby is one of the four professional provincial men's rugby union, rugby teams from the island of Ireland. Connacht competes in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup. The team represents the IRFU Connacht Branch, which is one of four primary branches of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), and is responsible for rugby union throughout the geographical Irish province of Connacht. Connacht plays its home games at The Sportsground, which currently holds 6,126 spectators and can be expanded to 8,129. Connacht play in a predominantly green Rugby shirt, jersey, Rugby shorts, shorts and Rugby socks, socks. The Connacht Rugby crest is a modified version of the provincial flag of Connacht and consists of a dimidiation, dimidiated eagle and an arm wielding a sword. With the province containing just over 8% of the total Irish population, Connacht has a much smaller base of rugby union players to choose from than the other three provinces. This playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Phillips (rugby Union)
William Michael Phillips (born 29 August 1982) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays at scrum-half. On 16 March 2013, Phillips surpassed the record of 76 caps set by Dwayne Peel as the most capped scrum-half for Wales. Tall and powerful, unusual properties in a scrum half, he has been compared to ex-Wales international Terry Holmes. Club career Phillips made his first appearance for the Scarlets at the age of 20, and remained there in spite of restrictions in first team appearances due to the performances of Dwayne Peel, until the summer of 2005. Citing his lack of first team appearances as the main reason, in 2005 Phillips signed for the Cardiff Blues starting most matches, partnering fellow former Welsh Under-21 player Nicky Robinson. In February 2007, Phillips was linked with a move to the Ospreys, on a basic wage of £180,000 as Cardiff Blues would not break their wage structure. Having signed for the Ospreys, at first he was the second-choice scrum-half as former A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garan Evans
Garan Rhys Evans (born 16 February 1973) is a Welsh former rugby union footballer, who played as a fullback for Llanelli, the Llanelli Scarlets and Wales. Evans was born in Trimsaran and educated at Ysgol y Strade in Llanelli. He made his international debut for Wales on 27 June 1998 in Pretoria against South Africa; the Welsh team were beaten 96–13. Evans did not play for Wales again until 2003, when he was capped against Ireland at Lansdowne Road; Wales lost the match 12–35. He then played in the victory over Scotland. He was included in Wales' squad at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, but only played for a matter of seconds against New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ... before suffering a neck injury and having to be stretchered off by paramedics. He ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Taylor (rugby Union, Born 1973)
Mark Taylor (born 27 February 1973) is a former Wales national rugby union team player who played at centre. He is a former captain of Wales and was the first person to score a try at the newly built Millennium Stadium against South Africa in 1999. He signed for Sale Sharks from Llanelli Scarlets in April 2005 and in 2007 he returned to Wales to play rugby for the Ospreys. In the 2005–2006 season, Taylor started the final as Sale Sharks Sale Sharks are a professional rugby union club from Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Its team play in Premiership Rugby, and have been in England's top division of rugby union continuously since 1995. Originally founded in 1861 as ... won their first Premiership title. He retired at the end of the 2007–2008 season. He works part-time as a Chartered Account for H J Phillips (Peugeot), Llanelli and has done so since 1998. He is married to Nicola, Director of H J Phillips. Mark was previously the Team Manager for the Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Watkins
Matthew Jason Watkins (2 September 1978 – 7 March 2020) was a Welsh professional rugby union player who played as a Centre (rugby union), centre. He was commonly known by the name Matthew J. Watkins to avoid confusion with another Welsh rugby union player of the same name. Born in Newport, Wales, Newport, Watkins began his rugby career with Newbridge RFC, Newbridge and Pontllanfraith RFC, Pontllanfraith before going professional with Newport RFC, Newport in 1997. After scoring 35 tries (175 points) in 121 appearances over five seasons with the club, Watkins was signed by Llanelli RFC, Llanelli. He was then part of the team at the dawn of regional rugby in Wales in 2003 and was part of the original Scarlets, Llanelli Scarlets regional side. He was also called up to the Wales national rugby union team, Wales national team several times during his spell with the Scarlets, earning 18 caps between 2003 and 2006. By 2007, he had become only the third player to reach 100 appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tal Selley
Taliesin Selley (born 20 April 1980) is a Welsh former rugby union footballer, who played either at centre or on the wing. After five seasons at the Llanelli Scarlets he signed a three-year deal with the Ospreys where he played in the historic victory over Australia. He played on loan at the Cardiff Blues and the Newport Gwent Dragons. He made numerous appearances for the Barbarians as well as representing the Help for Heroes rugby team. Selley was the first player to play for all four Welsh regions. He also played many years as a junior for Pembroke Dock Harlequins. National team Selley toured with Wales to Argentina, South Africa, United States, and Canada and scored a try on his senior international debut for Wales in 2005 versus the United States in Hartford, Connecticut. A regular for Wales on the IRB Sevens circuit, Selley remained the Wales national rugby sevens team's top try scorer with 60 tries, before being overtaken by Luke Morgan in 2016, and also the countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh Rugby
Edinburgh Rugby (formerly Edinburgh Reivers, Edinburgh Gunners) is one of the two professional rugby union teams from Scotland. The club competes in the United Rugby Championship, along with the Glasgow Warriors, its oldest rival. Edinburgh plays the majority of its home games at Edinburgh Rugby Stadium. The original Edinburgh District (rugby union), Edinburgh District team played the first ever inter-district match against Glasgow District (rugby union), Glasgow District in 1872, winning the match 3–0. The amateur district team was reformed with professionalism, as Edinburgh Rugby, in 1996 to compete in the Heineken Cup, its best performance coming in the 2011–12 season, when the club reached the semi-final but lost out narrowly to Ulster Rugby, Ulster, 22–19. The quarter-final tie against Toulouse attracted a former club record crowd of 37,881 spectators to Murrayfield. As of 2025, the attendance record stands at 40,063, achieved against Glasgow Warriors in 2024. In 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragons RFC
Dragons RFC () are one of the four professional rugby union regional teams in Wales. They play in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup/ European Rugby Challenge Cup. They play their home games at Rodney Parade, Newport, which was the home of Newport RFC from 1877 to 2017, and is shared with Newport County AFC, the city's English Football League team. The Dragons were formed in 2003 as a result of the introduction of regional rugby union teams in Wales, and represent a region covers an area of southeast representing an arena that covers an area of southeast Wales including Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen, with a total population approaching 600,000. They are affiliated with a number of semi-professional and amateur clubs throughout the area, including Pontypool RFC, Caerphilly RFC, Cross Keys RFC, Ebbw Vale RFC and Newport RFC. The team has been owned by Dragons RFC Ltd since 2023, having been solely owned by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arwel Thomas
Arwel Camber Thomas (born 8 November 1974) is a Welsh former professional rugby union player who played as a fly-half. Born in Trebanos in the Swansea Valley, he played international rugby for Wales, earning 23 caps between 1996 and 2000. He played club rugby for Swansea, Neath, Bristol, Pau, the Llanelli Scarlets and Harlequins. Career Thomas won his first of his 23 caps against Italy in 1996 when he replaced the injured Neil Jenkins in the starting line-up. He played club rugby for Swansea for seven years, scoring 1,974 points, including 39 tries. He turned down an offer to join Toulouse in 1999, and in 2005 he returned to Neath. In 2008 he announced his retirement from rugby after the 2008 Konica Minolta Cup final against Pontypridd Pontypridd ( , ), Colloquialism, colloquially referred to as ''Ponty'', is a town and a Community (Wales), community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, approximately 10 miles north west of Cardiff city centre. Geography Pontypridd compri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Bowen
Gareth Bowen (born 20 June 1979) is a Welsh former rugby union footballer who played as a fly-half. Born in Aberdare, he played for Bridgend, Bedford, Bristol, Llanelli, Scarlets, Neath, Aurillac, Ebbw Vale and Newport. Career After spending time with Bridgend and in England with Bedford and Bristol, Wales under-21 international Bowen joined Llanelli for the inaugural season of the Celtic League in 2001 and shared duties at fly-half with Stephen Jones. His performances earned him a call-up to both the Wales Sevens and Wales 'A' teams in October 2001, although in February 2002, he had to fly home from Sevens duty in New Zealand to cover for Jones who had been ordered to miss a game against Ebbw Vale to guard him against injury ahead of the 2002 Six Nations. In 2003, regional rugby came to Wales and Bowen and Jones were named as the two fly-halves for the Llanelli-based region, the Llanelli Scarlets; however, the start of the 2003–04 season coincided with the 2003 Rugby Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
