Tonight all members of the community council were invited to attend a meeting of the council with Tycroes rugby club and the only councillors that turned up were the labour ones, not one Plaid Cymru Councillor turned up, all four of the Hendy Labour Councillors turned up.

In his defence Plaid's WIB James had put his appologies in, when the community council were setting the date for the meeting at the last community council meeting, as it clashed with a previous engagement, because everybody was aware of the date time and venue, the clerk and councillors that attended, were expecting other councillors to attend and we withheld the start of the meeting by 1/4 of an hour in case they did turn up?

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how the community council could help support local sporting clubs in the community.

All of the clubs in Hendy and Tycroes were written too and when the council discussed the feedback, they decided to meet all the clubs to look at their needs.

Tycroes has 8 junior squads as well as the senior teams and the pitch has no drainage at all, on visiting the site tonight it was in a very poor state with uneven patches and pot holes where water/mud stands after a rainy day all over the pitch.

The club presented three tenders to the group that turned up from contractors that want to put drainage in, and details of a grant application, the grants from the wru and sports council of wales if accepted and passed are not likely to match the full cost of the project, therefore they would be looking to ask the community council to consider helping with some of the short fall.

On coming out of the club house it was good to see about 30 youngsters under 10 already out on the pitch training

We adviced the rugby club of other potential grant sources and will now await for more detailed diagrams of the drainage scheme and copies of grant applications and terms and conditions, before the council can make a decision.