The Gnoll liquidation in 2012. The ground hosted its first ever football match when Neath Athletic played Swansea City in a pre-season friendly in July 2008. The Gnoll started to host some Glamorgan County Championship fixtures in the 1930s, and in 1954 an indoor cricket school was opened at the site. However, problems with the pitch meant that from the late 1960s the ground was only used for one-day matches - in 1969 the Gnoll staged the county's first-ever home game in the Sunday League. In 1974, the Gnoll was dropped from the county's 1st XI fixture list, although it played host
Chris Cook (rugby union) Welsh. Cook scored the game's first try, and his first in a Premiership campaign, within two minutes. Chris Cook (rugby union) Chris Cook (born 16 April 1991) is an English rugby union player, who currently plays at scrum-half for Bath Rugby in the Aviva Premiership. A product of the Bath Rugby academy, Cook made his Aviva Premiership debut as a substitute against Sale Sharks. He spent the first half of the 2013-14 season playing for Bath's "A" team, before being loaned out to promotion hopefuls London Welsh. Cook returned to Bath for the 2014-15 season on a new one-year deal,