1984 - Stan Liptrot, Geri Davies, Iestyn Thomas, Geraint Williams, ex-Wales flanker Rob Appleyard, Lyndon Lewis and latterly Euros Evans. Watkins, a former Pontypridd hooker masterminded the defeat of his old club in the now famous 1984 Schweppes Cup, Liptrot brought professionalism and innovative ideas from his time as England U21 coach and Geri Davies made the pack into a fighting, bruising but disciplined unit, befitting of a high ranking Army officer Williams came with bright attacking ideas from his time at Newbridge, Appleyard introduced innovative methods of preparation and coaching and Lewis used his time as a teacher in Swansea to bring in influential players such as James Garland and Richard Brooks. But other schoolmasters in Iestyn Thomas and Euros Evans – both hookers - stand out, not just because they both won the WRU Cup as coaches but because of their significant influence in persuading so many of their former pupils to join the club. This was crucial once the game went professional in 1995 after which clubs – even lower league clubs - started to sign players from outside their own immediate area. Where once many clubs relied on home produced players, educated at local schools, they now swept the net wider in an effort to attract talented players and climb up the new league structures introduced in 1990. Llandovery's success in qualifying for the new Heineken Leagues in 1990 was owed largely to the efforts of former pupils of Ysgol Pantycelyn, a very talented and large bunch of players who happened to come together at the right time for the club. That success, strange enough, was down not as much to the school but to the coaching of Llandovery RFC pair of Bernard Jones and Davy George Davies who had attended WRU coaching courses under the crusading WRU Coaching Organiser Ray Williams. It was they who formed an U15 side in 1972 - the first age group side in the club's history - out of which grew a Youth side that produced some fine players through the 1970s and 1980s. The club's proudest moment in that period was the defeat of Pontypridd in the 1984 Schweppes Cup second round with a side of players almost all born and bred in the Llandovery area, coached by Jock Watkins. But it was the cohort of players active in the late 1980s and early 1990s that were instrumental in