PONTYPOOL can seal promotion on Saturday but their backer Peter Jeffreys won't walk away from the club even if dreams of Principality Premiership rugby are crushed.

Pooler play their biggest game in years when they host rivals RGC 1404 this weekend and victory would secure a place in the top four of the Swalec Championship and a return to the top flight.

They do have the safety net of a final weekend encounter at champions and fellow promotion hopefuls Bargoed but it promises to be a tense afternoon at Pontypool Park.

However, the remaining two games of this season won't be make-or-break in terms of the future of the famous club.

Chairman Jeffreys – who pumped a six-figure sum into Pooler to save the club being wound up in 2012 after their ill-fated court battle with the Welsh Rugby Union – has confirmed that he is in it for the long haul, even if that means Championship rather than Premiership rugby.

"Pledging our future commitment to Pontypool RFC beyond this season was an incredibly easy decision to make," said his son and chief executive Ben Jeffreys.

"We are driven to take Pooler back to the Principality Premiership but the club is about so much more than purely achieving that goal.

"The club has been a constant presence in the lives of our supporters and volunteers for an exceptionally long period of time and it is vitally important that we preserve that connection well into the future."

Pooler are hoping that on Saturday night head coach Louie Tonkin will be ambitiously planning for Pontypridd, Newport and Ebbw Vale but there is a contingency plan in place.

Ben Jeffreys said: "The club has established a rock solid management group that has the ability to adapt and succeed under any circumstances and we are fully prepared for any eventuality the club may face next season.

"We have an ambitious plan A should we gain promotion to the Principality Premiership and an equally sensible plan B that we can trigger should we remain in the Championship.

"The supporters can have absolute certainty that the club is well prepared for the many challenges that lay ahead next season and we will not see a repeat of 2012.

"My message to everybody ahead of Saturday's match is to simply enjoy the occasion and celebrate the progress the club has made since 2012, safe in the knowledge that the club is here to stay.

"We started this journey together and we will enter the next chapter together. We are incredibly enthusiastic about the club's future."

And regardless of the results at Pontypool Park and Bargoed Park, Ben Jeffreys believes that the Welsh Rugby Union should reconsider their decision to ring-fence the Premiership for three seasons.

"We would welcome the challenge of staving off relegation should we earn promotion to the Principality Premiership," he said.

"Rugby is about survival of the fittest and ring fencing totally eliminates that element of jeopardy that is so vital for retaining interest in Welsh club rugby."