It’s crunch time for Barry in the Admiral League with their next two matches against the teams below them in the Division One table.
The Bombers visit Rhiwbina on Saturday, before playing host to bottom club Porth Harlequins - who are still without a win - a week later.
Barry, with three wins from their first ten matches, are on 16 points. Rhiwbina, who beat Porth 32-26 last Saturday, the only game played in the division, are on ten points with two wins from their ten fixtures. Porth, after ten straight defeats, have four points.
Barry won their last match before the Christmas and New Year break 47-33 at promotion-chasing Penarth, but the first two fixtures of 2025 - at Rhydyfelin and home to leaders St Joseph’s - fell victim to frozen pitches.
Head coach Mike Morgan warned, after the victory at Penarth, that there is no room for complacency in the scrap for survival.
Porth and Rhiwbina, he said, “will absolutely target Barry, and we can’t go into these games thinking they will be easy.”
He has targeted scoring four tries in each of the eight games remaining this season, which would ensure Barry come away with, if not victory, at least some league points from each one - points which could prove crucial in the battle for survival.
*Barry’s Youth team take on Newport High School Old Boys at the Reservoir Field on Saturday (2.30pm) in the first of two warm-up matches in preparation for the quarter-final of the WRU Youth Plate.
The following week, Fairwater will be the visitors to the Reservoir Field.
Head coach John Dimond will use the two games to finalise his line-up for the quarter-final at Cowbridge on February 1st as he aims to steer the club’s youth team to a second national semi-final in two years.
Barry reached the WRU Youth Cup semi-final in March 2023, but were beaten 14-10 by Carmarthen Quins.
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