Forty five phases before scoring!

The Charging Bull stealing a lineout

Despite getting a right old hammering in the annual charity match against local pub rivals The Charging Bull, the Prince of Wales team created a little bit of rugby history at the Llangynfelyn Recreation ground yesterday by going through forty-five phases before scoring their only try of the match.

In front of a small but enthusiastic local crowd, the Prince side were down 28-0 with only pride and a few
minutes left when they launched a sustained attack on the Bull's line, with a move that began deep in their own 22.

"I counted over twenty phases by the time they reached the halfway line," said official scorer and timekeeper Huw Jones. "When Karl Collins finally scored I knew that it had to be over forty and was confident we had some kind of record on our hands," he added.

Indeed, when Huw trawled through rugby records, he found that the previous highest total was twenty-eight in a game involving Orange Free State and Northern Transvaal in South Africa in 1959.

A tape of the game made by local photographer Ian Pearce has been edited and a copy sent to The Guinness Book Of Sporting Records for verification.

"I can't wait for them to get in touch," said Prince landlord Bobby Collins," If we've got the record then we won't care about getting hammered," he added.