Programme cover with photo from previous year 
Big Al having sly pint before the game whilst waiting for an opposition team to turn up
Dean & Colin pose for photo instead of warming up
Louie surveys the scene
Warriors lineout: Rich Hapus struggles with throw in but John manages to win ball against 5'5 Owen Willimas, Richie griff however is more worried about hammering Gwilym
drop out 22
early lineout
Richie's puppet Cellan fell to the floor 
scrums roundabout
Simon kicks for goal
Gwilym on the floor: not the 1st or the last time
Warriors XV that triumphed at Betws: bk row; Tony Whittaker, Darren Pimp, Lee Rowlands, Roger Thomas (Cpt), Jason Bennett, Gwilym Lewis, Dean Gilasbey, Alan Stephens, Dai Newson (Chairman). Frt row; Jon Kerr, Simon Jenkins, Richard Evans, Chris Bonar, David Edwards, John Horwood, Colin Talcon.
Talcon settles down to watch the Scarlets
Jumpin' relaxs
Louie sleeps
The Warriorettes avin a laff (Tracey, Leslie and Zoe)
Bonar and brawd: Nick Price
Bonar trying to wake Pancho up
Pancho surrenders
Chris offers a shoulder
and plenty of advice (having been in that state himself far too often)A good day in betws despite both sides being short on numbers. The Warriors at least had a full XV and some decent excuses with Jason and Sheep: injured, Fotos: nearly a dad (since turned out a healthy boy,congrats) and parker, Billo and Andrew: twickers to see the Scarlets. Betws managed 10 or so (inc Richie Griff who was do to make his 15th Warriors apperance) with excuses mainly being: shagged out (Thomas brothers). 'I just couldn't move' (Iestyn Griff and bad knee (Iestyn Wills). So it eventually turned out a game of about 13 aside (see after match report). To be fair the 1sts had had a busy day at St Clears the day before and the 2nds had contriversally been knocked out of the cup by local rivals Penybanc.
Match report
The Llanelli Warriors racked up another win on the road when they came out top in this free flowing encounter with Betws. Both sides were missing key players but instead of playing safe caution was thrown to the wind with the game played at a frantic pace throughout.
As expected Warriors scrum half Gwilym Lewis came in for some close marking from his ‘home’ club, especially the front row of Cellan Davies, Richard Griffiths and Chris Bonar, who piled through at every opportunity.
Simon Jenkins took it upon himself to relive the pressure and he opened the scoring with a typical thrust. The Betws backs seemed to have the edge in the early exchanges with Fred Morris and Owen Williams looking dangerous. Cellan Harris though bagged their 1st points with a drop goal.
The ball was spread wide at every opportunity which suited players like Gareth Lewis and Lee Moulton (Betws) and their opposite numbers Tony Whittaker and Dai Edwards. They each gave everything in attack and defence and tended to cancel each other out in an even contest.
In the second half Anthony O’Neil had a major influence once he had returned from a yellow card. He scored two neat tries and kept Betws in the game. They needed them as the Warriors, working off center Lee Rowlands started to take the upper hand. Alan Stephens scored from a rampage down the left flank and he was quickly followed by Dean Gilasbey after some excellent hands in mid field. These tries were converted by Jenkins and Tony Whittaker to put the Warriors ahead but Colin Talcon helped inspire a Betws fight back. Following his lead Paul Jones, Phil Saunders and Rhys Griffiths all had their moments as they pounded the Warriors line but stout work from Richard Evans and Jason Bennett kept them at bay. The final nail came when flanker Darren Pimp created enough room for Jon Kerr to scorch over for the Warriors. Jenkins second conversion put the final seal on an entertaining performance from the Llanelli team.
Llanelli Warriors: Tony Whittaker, David Edwards, Lee Rowlands, Alan Stephens, N. O. One, Dean Gilasbey, Gwilym Lewis, Colin Talcon (Chris Bonar), Richard Evans, Jason Bennett, John Horwood (Jon Kerr), Roger Thomas (Cpt), N. eb, Simon Jenkins, Darren Pimp.
Betws: Gareth Lewis, Lee Moulton, Rhys Griffiths, Freddie Morris, N. O. One, Phil Saunders, Anthony O'Neil, Jon Kerr(John Horwood), Chris Bonar (Colin Talcon), Richard Griffiths, Cellan Davies, Cellan Harris, Owen Williams, Paul Jones
Man of the match: Colin Talcon
Tries: Jenkins, Kerr, Gilasbey, Stephens.
Conversion: Jenkins (2), Whittaker
Ref: Steve Dobbin O'Neil
Notable incidents mainly revolved around Gwilym getting hammereed everytime he got near the ball, Richie Griff "Doing a number on Colin Talcon" in the scrums, Cellan Harris' awful drop goal, Dobbin Jnr getting yellow carded again (see Penybanc) and Killer losing his shorts. Colin was named man of the match but tackle of the day must have been Roger catching Richie 'twinkle toes' Griffiths. The match actually turned out to be a very enjoyable run out for those who made it.
After the match itself it was into the club to watch the Scarlets in the Powergen cup final and very disapointing it was, although gwilym (again) had the compensation of claiming 'last to score' money. The Warriorettes obviously enjoyed their day out and Chris Bonar allegedly found (another) long lost brother in Nick Price and was kind enough to pass on his expertise on being hammered to a very 'affected' Alan Pancho.
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