Welsh Rugby Union Haverfordwest RFC, Llandaff RFC, Llanelli RFC, Neath RFC, Newport RFC, Pontypridd RFC and Swansea RFC. The issue with accepting this meeting is that there is no written evidence, just oral repetition. On 12 March 1881, eleven clubs met in the Castle Hotel, Neath to form what would be accepted as a Welsh rugby union. After a humiliating defeat in the first Wales international rugby game, the Neath meeting was organised by Mullock to form a union that could organise regular international matches. The founding clubs of the WFU (Welsh Football Union), as it was originally known, were Swansea C &
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,