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Gwalia Lightning return home to Wales in Round 6 of the Celtic Challenge looking to do the double over Edinburgh at Ystrad Mynach, on Saturday, February 1st (KO:2pm). The Welsh side sit second in the league table after last weekend’s impressive 29-27 win on the road against the same opponents in the Scottish capital. Welsh […]
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Brython Thunder hit the road again for Round 6 of Celtic Challenge when they travel to Belfast to face Clovers at the Kingspan Stadium on Saturday, February 1st (KO: Midday). The Welsh side is still looking for their first win of this league campaign and face a Clovers side with three wins and mid-table in […]
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Wales travel to Japan this July as a two-Test match series against the Brave Blossoms is confirmed. First up Wales head to Kitakyushu where the first Test takes place on 5 July at Mikuni World Stadium. Following that the squad heads to Kobe for the second Test on July 12 at Noevir Stadium which, like […]
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Wales may be playing away from home against France in the opening round of the 2025 Guinness Six Nations, but for lock Will Rowlands the match at Stade de France will kick-off in the city where he currently lives. Rowlands is playing club rugby at Racing 92 in the Top 14 these days and believes […]
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Abi Tierney has announced a new, streamlined, executive team structure at the Welsh Rugby Union, as she kicks-off her second year as CEO. The new executive leadership team consists of five roles, where previously there were up to nine individuals, and will include a new Chief Growth Officer, a Chief Operating Officer, the Chief People […]
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Head coach Richard Whiffin has confirmed his Wales U20 Men’s matchday squad to face France in their opening fixture of the 2025 U20 Six Nations. Wales head to northwest France to tackle the home side on Saturday at Stade de la Rabine in Vannes in the opening round of the championship. (KO 8.10pm, S4C) […]
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The Scarlets ran in another eight tries to add to their seven in the opening game against Cardiff Rugby as they swamped the Dragons at Ystrad Mynach to make it two from two in the defence of their Regional Academies U18 crown. Llandovery College centre Gryff Watkins took his tournament tally to four as he […]
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Before the likes of David Watkins, Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies, Neil Jenkins, Stephen Jones and Dan Biggar made the No 10 jersey so iconic with their world class performances, Welsh outside halves used to wear No 6. And the last man to wear the No 6 on his back was Bryan Richards in […]
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Liam Williams has got a firm message for all the youngsters queuing up to take his place – ‘I’m not ready to give up my shirt’. The 34-year-old Saracens star is on a mission to reach 100 caps for this country and to carry on being Warren Gatland’s No 1 bomb diffuser at the back. […]
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Warren Gatland believes all the expectation will be on the French side when Wales open their Guinness Six Nations campaign in Paris on Friday night. After some strong performances by French teams in the Investec Champions Cup this season, and with Antoine Dupont back to skipper the side having missed the 2024 championship, the home […]
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When Harry Beddall leads Wales U20 onto the pitch in Vannes in Saturday night’s opening game in the U20 Six Nations he will be hoping for a big change in Welsh fortunes. Only once in the U20 Six Nations has a Welsh team won on French soil, a 27-13 triumph in Clermont Auvergne, and they […]
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France’s Romain Ntamack is set to line up at fly-half for the first time in almost 18 months but the Six Nations favourites will be without the wing Damian Penaud for Friday night’s opener against Wales, adding to a list of key players unavailable for the curtain-raiser at the Stade de France.
Ntamack missed the 2023 World Cup with a knee injury and his planned comeback last November was curtailed by a calf injury, but he will reprise his highly regarded combination with the returning captain, Antoine Dupont. Penaud had been expected to return to the team but suffered a toe injury in training and Théo Attissogbé will line up on the wing instead.
Continue reading...Senior men’s head coach Warren Gatland has named the Wales team to play France in the opening match of the 2025 Guinness Six Nations at Stade de France, Paris on Friday 31 January (KO 20.15h GMT, live on ITV and S4C). Josh Adams, Liam Williams and Dafydd Jenkins return to the Wales starting XV at […]
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Aled Walters still recalls watching the British & Irish Lions win the 1989 series against Australia as an eight-year-old and celebrating Ieuan Evans try in the third Test. Now he will be joining Evans, who is the current chairman of the Lions Committee and tour manager this summer, on the 2025 tour Down Under after […]
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New Wales scrum coaching consultant Adam Jones is loving being back in the international environment and is backing his old coach Warren Gatland to turn things around. Jones won 95 caps for Wales and played in five Tests for the British & Irish Lions and since hanging up his boots has become a highly rated […]
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