Rugby was not played in Llandovery from 1914 to 1919, during the Great War, but commenced again in 1920 and the club continued until 1935, but due to a lack of fixtures ceased to function in that year.
Llandovery RFC moved their club headquarters to the White Hall and in 1956 the town's Improvement Committee purchased Barlow's Field which was levelled and reseeded.
Honour is due to “Jock Watkins” – the coach when Llandover y beat Pontypridd in the WRU Cup back in 1984 - Stan Liptrot, Geri Davies, Iestyn Thomas, Geraint Williams, ex-Wales flanker Rob Appleyard, Lyndon Lewis and latterly Euros Evans.
Watkins, a former Pontypridd hooker masterminded the defeat of his old club in the now famous 1984 Schweppes Cup, Liptrot brought professionalism and innovative ideas from his time as England U21 coach and Geri Davies made the pack into a fighting, bruising but disciplined unit, befitting of a high ranking Army officer Williams came with bright attacking ideas from his time at Newbridge, Appleyard introduced innovative methods of preparation and coaching and Lewis used his time as a teacher in Swansea to bring in influential players such as James Garland and Richard Brooks.
But other schoolmasters in Iestyn Thomas and Euros Evans – both hookers - stand out, not just because they both won the WRU Cup as coaches but because of their significant influence in persuading so many of their former pupils to join the club.
The club's proudest moment in that period was the defeat of Pontypridd in the 1984 Schweppes Cup second round with a side of players almost all born and bred in the Llandovery area, coached by Jock Watkins.
In those defining years of the late 1980s and early 1990s the likes of Hywel Jones, Arwel Rowlands, Geraint and Carwyn Williams, Chris and Adrian Davies, Huw Morgans, Wyn and Alan Morgan, Arwel Evans, Wyn Williams, Alun Thomas, Emyr James, Eirian Jones, Carwyn Davies, Dai Giles and Elfyn Jenkins – to mention just a few- were all former Pantycelyn pupils and former Llandovery Youth products.
Llandovery had frequent struggles to keep in the top division and in 2007 they were only saved from relegation because of the technicalities of league criteria eligibility Amazingly that was the year in which was ex-London Welsh and Harlequins hooker Thomas coached the Drovers to beat Cardiff 20–18 in the 2017 WRU Cup Final thanks to a last gasp try from prop Endaf Howells.
Tom Walker and Ioan Davies, too, were in the side that won the 2007 Cup and Andy Powell was another who played 18 games for the Drovers 2000-2001before going on to greater things with Wales and the Lions.
As admirers of Evans's coaching methods, his fair and sympathetic handling, astute analysis and ponderous A ball pod system, well over 30 former pupils have played a major role in establishing the Drovers as a leading force in the tough environment of the semi-pro world of the Premiership.