SATURDAY 10th SEPTEMBER 2005: - COLWYN BAY 6 - NANT CONWY 21  

Colwyn Bay emerged from their new changing rooms and ran onto their new pitch,
however its was the Nant Conwy of old who gate crashed the party. A large crowd had gathered at Brookfield Drive to watch this local derby. However rugby fans were left disappointed as the fixture was marred by constant brawling and ill discipline.
It appeared Nant Conwy came to the Bay with one game plan, and that was to disrupt all Bay's efforts to play good rugby, a plan which proved successful. The boys from the valley immediately went about disrupting Bay's set pieces denying bay of any good ball for their talented young backs. It was Nant who was more comfortable with the disjointed scrappy rugby, and they quickly forced a defensive error from Bay, scoring an unconverted try by way of a charged down kick. As the constant brawling continued both sets of players and supporters were surprised by the lack of cards shown by the referee. A number of missed penalty attempts just before half time also did nothing for Bay's morale.
Early in the second half the ref finally found his yellow cards, resulting in the sin binning of Bay's hooker Sion Thomas, and Nant's flanker Gary Morris. This briefly cooled the fighting, however this may have been due to the two main instigators being off the pitch. Despite having the vast amount of possession Nant were unable to create any real scoring opportunities themselves, and it was only by two further defensive errors by Bay's young back line that Nant sealed victory.

Team Mascot - Tomos Caldwell & Captain  'Dave Brown' leading the team on to the pitch
Nant take a quick ball	Dave Brown gets stuck in
Dave Brown deep in Nants 22 with good support	Mike Doodson makes a great tackle in only his second appearance for the First XV