International Opposition
Bridgend RFC have hosted a number of touring teams throughout their history, the first being against Wolfhounds in season 1966/7, losing 11-5. The first game against international opposition was Italy in season 1971/2 with Bridgend running out 57-0 winners. New Zealand paid a visit in 1978 to help celebrate 100 years of the club's existence, the visitors winning 17-6. Australia arrived in 1981 with Bridgend winning 12-9, one of the most historic matches in the club's history. Wins against Western Samoa and a Wales XV occurred later in the 1980s. Tonga arrived in Bridgend in 1997 and won 21-18. The Brewery Field has hosted a number of Wales age-grade and Wales women's international matches.
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“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,—let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
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