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| Druids are ready to rock in Rhosymedre |
| Sunday 29 August 2010 |
 THE oldest football club in Wales has the newest stadium in the Principality after Cefn Druids unveiled their new ground at The Rock on Sunday. After 50 years at Plas Kynaston Lane, the Ancients have moved lock, stock and barrel just half a mile across Cefn Mawr High Street to Rhosymedre, where they will play their first game against Penrhyncoch in the Huws Gray Alliance on Saturday. The state-of-the-art, UEFA-compliant £1.8 million facility boasts a 500-seat grandstand, a large car park and a new 150-seat lounge inside a clubhouse with also has excellent changing rooms for players, male and female referees and medical treatment. A recently-turfed pitch laid by the same company that recently re-laid Wembley Stadium, will provide one of the best playing surfaces in the Welsh pyramid in a natural setting overlooking the valley below. Druids were the beneficiaries of Tesco's purchase of their old ground to build a new supermarket, but the move to The Rock was delayed by 12 months due to local residents' objections. Chairman Brian Mackie and his co-directors are justifiably proud of the new stadium, which represents several years of planning and hard work by the club's board. "We hope to also to be able to stage concerts and have already been promised schoolboy international matches," says commercial director Dave Bennett. "With the new football ground and the supermarket, this is an £18 million investment in Cefn Mawr, which can't be a bad thing." Photo (above): Druids chairman Brian Mackie and (below) a bird's eye view of The Rock. 
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