The Gnoll Wales Scorpions have played at the Gnoll since their formation in 2010. The ground hosted a Wales national rugby league team match during the 2010 European Cup, where Wales defeated Ireland 31-30. It also hosted Ireland at the Gnoll in at the 2011 Rugby League Four Nations. Wales won the game by 30 points to 6. The stadium also hosted Wales v Cook Islands at the 2013 Rugby League World Cup; it was the smallest venue used at the tournament and only hosted a single game. Welsh Premier League club Neath Athletic played at The Gnoll between 2008, and their
Ray Williams (Welsh rugby union coach) 1991. He received an OBE for services to rugby in 1995. Williams was awarded the International Rugby Board’s Vernon Pugh award for distinguished service in 2014, just weeks before his death after a battle with cancer. Ray Williams (Welsh rugby union coach) Ray Williams, OBE (25 August 1927 – 3 December 2014) was the world's first professional full-time rugby union coach. He was the national coaching director of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, devising the strategies that led Wales to dominate rugby in Europe at that time. He was also a major