Blaina travelled to take on Nelson on Saturday knowing they would have to play well to take Nelson's undefeated home record off them.

And they produced their best team performance of the season to inflict a 21-0 defeat on the mid-Glamorgan outfit.

The game was full of incident and in total there were four yellow cards and a red for Nelson with Blaina punished for retaliation and earning two yellow cards and a red.

After ten minutes the ball was moved swiftly to centre Ross Watts who opened up the Nelson defence and co centre Craig Jones was in support to take the pass and sprint over for the opening try.

Watts converted to put Blaina 7-0 up before adding two penalties to increase the lead.

Both sides were reduced to 14 men as the Nelson flanker was red-carded for dangerous use of the boot and Blaina's Christen Penny received yellow for retaliation.

On the stroke of half time Watts was unlucky to see his penalty attempt rebound off a post and Blaina had to settle for a 13-0 lead at the break.

A mass brawl early in the second half ended with Lee John receiving a yellow card, centre Craig Jones a red card for retaliation over the incident and two yellows for the Nelson players concerned.

Watts stroked over another penalty to further punish the home side but the icing on the cake came in the dying minutes.

Watts burst clear on half way with Fillier in support and showing his football skills controlled the ball to cross for a great solo try and ensure a hard-earned away victory for Blaina which moves them up to sixth in the division.

This Saturday Blaina entertain the old enemy Pontypool United at Central Park (kick-off 2.30pm).

Training this week is at the Nantyglo Leisure centre on Thursday from 8pm to 9pm.

cwmcarn were again let down by a number of first choice players when they travelled to face cwm at the weekend and for the fourth match running they were left struggling to field a team.

Throughout the first half the contest was even and only a breakaway try allowed Cwm to stretch away to a 15-0 lead.

Cwmcarn again played some tremendous attacking rugby, picking and driving through Cwm's defence, only to drop the ball or knock-on as the line approached.

Cwm also played attacking rugby and scored some well worked tries as Cwmcarn weakened in the final quarter of the match.

They never let their heads down but with only 14 players the floodgates opened and Cwm ran out deserved 43-0 winners.

Cwmcarn training is today at the Welfare Ground.

Hafodyrynys beat St Josephs 19-12 in a friendly on Saturday after New Tredegar called off the scheduled match for the second time this season.

It took Hafod some time to get into their stride and St Josephs took an early lead with a try in the corner.

For the next half hour Hafod camped in the opposition half and scored three tries through Dane Williams, Aaron Morgan and Gethin Foxwell with Dane Williams adding two conversions.

Hafod though seemed to lose their way in the second half which was much more even, squandering early chances to further ahead.

This allowed the opposition to stay in the game and they scored the only points of the second half with a try and conversion.

Hafod will have to improve on this with a couple of important games coming up.

This week they travel to play Rhymney Rhinos in the league and the bus leaves at 1pm.

Trinant, without a game since November 17, were more than thankful that their annualpast v present fixture went ahead before their home league game against Usk.

Some 47 players turned up to play, the largest number for some time in a very entertaining game which was followed by some very good entertainment in a packed clubhouse.

In Saturday's game with Usk the Troggs' were understandably a little rusty having not played a proper fixture for seven weeks and squandered several good scoring chances with the wrong options being taken.

Usk led 5-3 at half time with both sides not gaining any real impetus.

The interval team talk musthave done some good, however, as the Troggs were a different team in the second half, scoring a superb try which saw all the threequarters handle the ball for wing Ryan Jones to go over in the corner for an 8-5 lead.

Outside half Jamie Lyonsincreased Trinant's lead with a further two penalties and on 65 minutes full-back David Morgan went over for another try.

Usk latched onto a sloppy pass to score an interception try under the posts but Trinant held on for a 19-12 win.

They now eagerly await the local derby at Crumlin this Saturday.

In what was predicted to be a tight local derby Crumlin ran out convincing 65-0 winners at Llanhilleth.

With 11 unanswered tries Crumlin put in a very good performance in extremely wet conditions.

Both the forwards and the backs crossed the try line, the pick of the scores being a long range effort that was finished off by Chesney Chick.

Star man was Michael Jones who scored a brace of tries.