2001–02 Welsh-Scottish League

2001–02 Welsh-Scottish League
2001–02 Welsh-Scottish League
Countries	Scotland Wales
Champions	Llanelli RFC
Runners-up	Newport RFC
Matches played	110
	← Scotland Wales 2000–01 Welsh-Scottish League Scotland 2002–03 Scottish Inter-District Championship; Wales →

Llanelli won the third and final Welsh-Scottish League.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

2001-2002 League Table[]

The top 5 Welsh teams plus Glasgow and Edinburgh qualified for next season's Heineken Cup. At the end of this season Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby left the Scottish-Welsh League; making the 2002-03 a nine team Welsh Premier Division. The bottom side Caerphilly thus avoided regulation.

Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	Tries	Pts
Llanelli RFC	20	15	0	5	583	402	60	45
Newport RFC	20	14	1	5	576	415	68	43
Neath RFC	20	14	0	6	616	366	64	42
Cardiff RFC	20	13	1	6	498	404	56	40
Swansea RFC	20	11	0	9	451	404	42	33
Edinburgh	20	10	2	8	498	512	55	32
Pontypridd RFC	20	9	0	11	441	440	41	27
Glasgow	20	8	1	11	475	527	50	25
Bridgend RFC	20	7	1	12	498	545	50	22
Ebbw Vale RFC	20	5	0	15	407	609	36	15
Caerphilly RFC	20	1	0	19	379	798	40	3

Results[]

With 11 teams in the league it was impossible to have an even round system where each team played one another in a weekend. (One team would always have to sit out.)

The fixture list was instead devised so that teams would fulfil their fixtures in weekend or mid-week slots.

Each team would play 20 rounds in total.

The first 4 or 5 rounds for each club were hosted jointly by the Celtic League (dependent on which Celtic League pool those teams were in).

Welsh-Scottish and Celtic League fixtures[]

These rounds counted both for the Welsh-Scottish League and for the Celtic League.

Pool A of the Celtic League had 8 teams, Pool B had 7 teams in total. Of that, Pool A had 6 Scottish-Welsh teams and Pool B had 5 Scottish-Welsh teams.

Thus Scottish and Welsh teams of Pool A had 5 matches against one another. Scottish and Welsh teams of Pool B had 4 matches against one another.

These matches were played first in allocated slots.

Slot 1[]

17 August 2001

Bridgend	19 – 27	Pontypridd

Brewery Field

18 August 2001

Caerphilly	13 – 43	Neath

18 August 2001

Llanelli	46 – 16	Ebbw Vale

Slot 2[]

24 August 2001

Ebbw Vale	18 – 13	Pontypridd

24 August 2001

Neath	25 – 14	Cardiff

25 August 2001

Newport	50 – 22	Caerphilly

25 August 2001

Swansea	16 – 25	Bridgend

Slot 3[]

28 August 2001

Edinburgh	20 – 32	Neath
	Preview

28 August 2001

Pontypridd	6 – 11	Swansea

29 August 2001
19:00

Bridgend	50 – 15	Glasgow
Try: Adrian Durston Gareth Thomas x 2 Gareth Jones Maama Molitika Con: Cerith Rees x 5 Pen: Cerith Rees x 5	Preview Report Report Report Report Report^{[dead link]}	Try: James Craig Roland Reid Con: Barry Irving Pen: Barry Irving

Brewery Field
Attendance: 4,300

29 August 2001

Cardiff	20 – 14	Newport

Slot 4[]

31 August 2001
19:30

Glasgow	59 – 14	Pontypridd
Try: Glenn Metcalfe Tommy Hayes Roland Reid x 3 Jason White James McLaren Jon Steel Lee Harrison Con: Tommy Hayes x 7	Preview Report Report Report Report Report	Try: Gareth Wyatt Dale McIntosh Con: Alex Lawson Ceri Sweeney

Hughenden Stadium
Attendance: 4,110
Referee: A Rolland (Ireland)

1 September 2001

Caerphilly	15 – 49	Cardiff

1 September 2001

Ebbw Vale	21 – 26	Swansea

1 September 2001

Llanelli	36 – 3	Bridgend

1 September 2001

Newport	29 – 11	Edinburgh

Slot 5[]

7 September 2001

Edinburgh	27 – 20	Caerphilly

8 September 2001

Pontypridd	17 – 19	Llanelli

8 September 2001

Swansea	13 – 21	Glasgow

Slot 6[]

11 September 2001

Cardiff	32 - 24	Edinburgh

11 September 2001

Glasgow	58 - 22	Ebbw Vale

11 September 2001

Llanelli	21 - 27	Swansea

Slot 7[]

14 September 2001

Glasgow	15 - 9	Llanelli

15 September 2001

Ebbw Vale	17 - 18	Bridgend

15 September 2001

Neath	11 - 19	Newport

After 7 slots, each team had now played 4 or 5 rounds (depending on whether they were in Celtic League Pool A or B).

The remaining slots and rounds played were purely for the Welsh-Scottish League.

Welsh-Scottish League fixtures[]

Slot 8[]

22 September 2001

Bridgend	26 - 35	Newport

22 September 2001

Cardiff	25 - 13	Swansea

22 September 2001

Neath	26 - 41	Llanelli

22 September 2001

Pontypridd	38 - 8	Caerphilly

Slot 9[]

12 October 2001

Ebbw Vale	15 - 10	Edinburgh

12 October 2001

Glasgow	40 - 22	Caerphilly
Try: Cameron Blades Alan Bulloch Roland Reid x 2 Nathan Ross Con: Tommy Hayes x 3 Pen: Tommy Hayes x 3	Preview Report Report	Try: David Hawkins Con: Luke Richards Pen: Luke Richards x 4 Drop: Luke Richards

Hughenden Stadium
Attendance: 2973
Referee: Malcolm McEwan (Hawick)

Slot 10[]

19 October 2001

Newport	25 - 19	Swansea

19 October 2001

Edinburgh	13 - 11	Pontypridd

20 October 2001

Bridgend	19 - 21	Neath

20 October 2001

Caerphilly	25 - 30	Ebbw Vale

20 October 2001

Llanelli	28 - 25	Cardiff

Slot 11[]

1 December 2001

Swansea	22 - 14	Ebbw Vale

1 December 2001
postponed to
30 April 2002

Glasgow	19 - 22	Cardiff
Try: Kenny Sinclair Con: Kenny Sinclair Pen: Tommy Hayes x 4	Preview Report Report Report	Try: M Allen N Walne Con: N Robinson Pen: N Robinson x 4

Hughenden Stadium
Referee: John Steele (Dumfries)

Slot 12[]

7 December 2001

Edinburgh	27 - 22	Bridgend

7 December 2001

Llanelli	17 - 13	Newport

8 December 2001

Ebbw Vale	6 - 45	Neath

8 December 2001

Swansea	36 - 21	Caerphilly

Slot 13[]

14 December 2001

Swansea	3 - 12	Pontypridd

15 December 2001

Bridgend	28 - 24	Ebbw Vale

15 December 2001

Caerphilly	20 - 46	Newport

15 December 2001

Cardiff	16 - 12	Neath

15 December 2001

Llanelli	42 - 17	Edinburgh

Slot 14[]

21 December 2001

Edinburgh	51 - 18	Swansea

21 December 2001

Llanelli	39 - 27	Neath

22 December 2001

Bridgend	25 - 25	Cardiff

22 December 2001

Caerphilly	35 - 16	Glasgow
Try: David Hawkins Geraint Lewis Ben Watkins Graham Thomas Con: Luke Richards x 3 Pen: Luke Richards x 3	Preview Preview Report Report	Try: Alan Bulloch Graeme Beveridge Pen: Tommy Hayes x 2

Virginia Park
Attendance: 650
Referee: Hugh Lewis (Pontypridd)

22 December 2001

Pontypridd	33 - 13	Ebbw Vale

Slot 15[]

26 December 2001

Cardiff	28 - 20	Pontypridd

26 December 2001

Neath	38 - 33	Caerphilly

26 December 2001

Newport	35 - 25	Ebbw Vale

26 December 2001

Swansea	35 - 9	Llanelli

26 December 2001
postponed to
29 March 2002

Glasgow	19 - 23	Edinburgh
Try: Graeme Beveridge Con: Tommy Hayes Pen: Tommy Hayes x 4	Preview Preview Report Report	Try: David Officer Kevin Utterson Con: Duncan Hodge x 2 Pen: Duncan Hodge x 2 Drop: Duncan Hodge

Hughenden Stadium
Attendance: 4358
Referee: Paddy O"Brien (New Zealand)

Slot 16[]

28 December 2001

Pontypridd	6 - 33	Newport

29 December 2001

Bridgend	31 - 33	Llanelli

29 December 2001

Caerphilly	21 - 35	Edinburgh

29 December 2001

Ebbw Vale	22 - 20	Cardiff

29 December 2001

Neath	31 - 15	Swansea

Slot 17[]

18 January 2002

Newport	24 - 9	Llanelli

19 January 2002

Caerphilly	16 - 36	Pontypridd

19 January 2002

Cardiff	29 - 12	Glasgow
Try: Matt Allen Francois Mounier Gary Powell Rhys Williams Con: Nicky Robinson x 3 Pen: Nicky Robinson	Preview Report Report Report Report	Pen: Graeme Kiddie x 4

Cardiff Arms Park
Attendance: 4000
Referee: David R. Davies (Llanbradach)

Slot 18[]

8 February 2002

Ebbw Vale	3 - 16	Llanelli

8 February 2002

Edinburgh	19 - 19	Newport

9 February 2002

Caerphilly	3 - 38	Swansea

9 February 2002

Neath	35 - 21	Bridgend

9 February 2002

Pontypridd	25 - 20	Glasgow
Try: Jason Lewis Con: Nicky Little Pen: Nicky Little x 5 Ceri Sweeney	Preview Preview Report Report Report	Try: Andrew Henderson Rory Kerr Con: Tommy Hayes x 2 Pen: Tommy Hayes x 2

Sardis Road
Attendance: 3000
Referee: Phil Fear (Llanharan)

Slot 19[]

22 February 2002

Edinburgh	13 - 13	Glasgow
Try: Derrick Lee Martin Leslie Pen: Brendan Laney	Preview Report	Try: Alan Bulloch Con: Tommy Hayes Pen: Tommy Hayes x 2

Myreside
Attendance: 2732
Referee: Rob Dickson (Madras College FP)

Slot 20[]

8 March 2002

Pontypridd	17 - 12	Neath

9 March 2002

Caerphilly	21 - 34	Bridgend

9 March 2002

Cardiff	26 - 16	Ebbw Vale

9 March 2002

Newport	55 - 5	Glasgow
Try: Peter Buxton Jason Forster Adrian Garvey Andrew Powell Rod Snow Ofisa Tonu'u x 3 Matthew Watkins Con: Shane Howarth x 5	Preview Report Report Report Report	Try: Jonathan Stuart

Rodney Parade
Attendance: 6820
Referee: Paul Adams (Ebbw Vale)

9 March 2002

Swansea	22 - 27	Edinburgh

Slot 21[]

15 March 2002

Ebbw Vale	22 - 32	Newport

15 March 2002

Glasgow	20 - 27	Neath
Try: Jon Petrie Pen: Tommy Hayes x 5	Preview Report	Try: Gareth Llewellyn Nathan Bonner-Evans Con: Lee Jarvis Pen: Lee Jarvis x 5

Hughenden Stadium
Attendance: 2421
Referee: Iain Ramage (Berwick)

16 March 2002

Bridgend	53 - 30	Edinburgh

16 March 2002

Llanelli	62 - 18	Caerphilly

16 March 2002

Pontypridd	18 - 21	Cardiff

Slot 22[]

13 April 2002

Neath	46 - 8	Glasgow
Try: Kevin James x 4 Barry Williams Dave Tiueti Andrew Howell Con: Lee Jarvis x 3	Preview Report Report Report Report Report Report	Try: Michael Bartlett Con: Calvin Howarth Pen: Calvin Howarth

The Gnoll
Attendance: 2000
Referee: Hugh Watkins (WRU)

Slot 23[]

10 April 2002

Glasgow	21 - 16	Bridgend
Try: Andrew Henderson Glenn Metcalfe Con: Graeme Kiddie Pen: Calvin Howarth Graeme Kiddie x 2	Preview Report Report Report Report	Try: Dafydd James Con: Craig Warlow Pen: Craig Warlow Drop: Craig Warlow x 2

Hughenden Stadium
Referee: David Changleng (Gala)

16 April 2002

Llanelli	26 - 20	Pontypridd

17 April 2002

Cardiff	27 - 16	Caerphilly

17 April 2002

Newport	20 - 36	Neath

Slot 24[]

19 April 2002

Edinburgh	32 - 10	Cardiff

19 April 2002

Pontypridd	32 - 13	Bridgend

20 April 2002

Llanelli	40 - 14	Glasgow
Try: Mark Jones x 3 Leigh Davies Salesi Finau Con: Gareth Bowen x 3 Pen: Gareth Bowen x 3	Preview Report Report	Try: Jon Steel Pen: Calvin Howarth x 3

Stradey Park
Attendance: 3500
Referee: Colin Saunders (Wales)

20 April 2002

Neath	50 - 8	Ebbw Vale

20 April 2002

Swansea	52 - 13	Newport

Slot 25[]

23 April 2002

Edinburgh	49 - 31	Ebbw Vale

Slot 26[]

26 April 2002

Newport	14 - 17	Cardiff

27 April 2002

Bridgend	6 - 21	Swansea

27 April 2002

Ebbw Vale	18 - 37	Glasgow
Try: Rhys Shorney Iestyn Thomas Con: Gareth Cull Pen: Gareth Cull x 2	Preview Preview Report Report Report^{[dead link]}	Try: Graeme Beveridge x 2 Donnie Macfadyen x 2 Glenn Metcalfe Con: Tommy Hayes x 2 Calvin Howarth Pen: Tommy Hayes x 2

Eugene Cross Park
Attendance: 1200
Referee: Keri Evans (WRU)

27 April 2002

Neath	36 - 3	Edinburgh

Slot 27[]

3 May 2002

Edinburgh	40 - 8	Llanelli

3 May 2002

Glasgow	26 - 28	Newport
Try: Calvin Howarth Rory Kerr Roland Reid Con: Tommy Hayes Pen: Tommy Hayes Calvin Howarth x 2	Preview Report Report	Try: Llyr Lane Matt Mostyn x 2 Con: Shane Howarth x 2 Pen: Shane Howarth Jason Strange x 2

Hughenden Stadium
Attendance: 2500
Referee: John Hogg (Hawick)

3 May 2002

Neath	47 - 14	Pontypridd

4 May 2002

Bridgend	33 - 24	Caerphilly

4 May 2002

Swansea	24 - 20	Cardiff

Slot 28[]

7 May 2002

Caerphilly	6 - 54	Llanelli

7 May 2002

Cardiff	47 - 27	Bridgend

7 May 2002

Swansea	20 - 16	Neath

8 May 2002

Newport	34 - 23	Pontypridd

Slot 29[]

10 May 2002

Cardiff	25 - 28	Llanelli

10 May 2002

Ebbw Vale	66 - 20	Caerphilly

10 May 2002

Glasgow	37 - 20	Swansea
Try: Jon Steel Kenny Sinclair Jon Petrie Con: Tommy Hayes Calvin Howarth Pen: Tommy Hayes x 5 Drop: James McLaren	Preview Report Report Report	Try: Matt Taylor Nik Witkowski Selilio Martens Con: Gavin Henson Pen: Gavin Henson

Hughenden Stadium
Attendance: 3560
Referee: Andy Ireland (Edinburgh Referees Society)

11 May 2002

Newport	38 - 29	Bridgend

11 May 2002

Pontypridd	59 - 27	Edinburgh

References[]

[1] "- The history of rugby through its competitions".

[2] "BBC SPORT - Rugby Union - Celtic - Welsh-Scottish League 2001/2".

[3] "The end is nigh for Welsh/Scottish League". ESPN scrum.

[4] "BBC SPORT - CELTIC - Welsh/Scottish League Q&A".

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