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Abergavenny kicked off the new year with a visit to Tredegar to face the Ironsides in what promised to be a tough encounter.

After last weeks win over local rivals Usk 15-12 Aber's coaches made several changes to the starting line up . Nathan Harris joined Jay Adams and Matt Charles and  made up the front row, Luke Williams partnered Dan Horler in the second row with Will Evans dropping into the back row with Nathan Thomas and Dan Beavan . Lewis Evans and Matt Sevenoaks formed a new half back partnership Jacob Buttler and Nathan Byrne were in the centre and Lloyd Holder Josh Parr and Antony Squires made up the back three.

From the start the home side regained possession and kept the ball for a prolonged period to put Aber under pressure and tested their defence which once again stood firm. Eventually Abergavenny worked their way into the game predominately with a very dominant scrum and when Ironsides were awarded a scrum the Aber eight pushed them off their own ball for number eight Nathan Thomas to touch down converted by Evans to give Aber a 0-7 lead.

From the restart Abergavenny went straight back on the offensive and from a solid scrum on the ten metre line Thomas and Evans combined to put Lloyd Holder over in the corner for a well finished try. It now looked like Aber would kick on and put the game to bed but the home side had other ideas and rallied to prevent any further scores in the first half.

The second half saw the home side putting the clarets under long periods of pressure aided by some very dubious decisions by the man in the middle, and they were eventually rewarded with a converted try to make the score 7-12 .

Straight from the restart Aber managed to force a penalty kicked by Lewis Evans to stretch the lead to 7-15. Abergavenny now rung the changes with Rhob Conick and Rhod Webster coming on at half  back Dan Smith came on at centre with Ieuan James and Rob Lothian bolstering up the front row . The rest of the game became a very stop start affair with no continuity from either side and several yellow cards being handed out for various misdemeanours ,their was no further scores  and the game ended 15-7 to Abergavenny who next week travel to Llanhilleth in the fifth round of the Swalec bowl, all support would be much appreciated.

Abergavenny Quins travelled to local rivals Monmouth on Saturday with a strong squad and came away with hard a 21-24 victory after a hard fought encounter to give them the double over the Druids this season .