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Newport head back to the ground where they were beaten in last season’s Indigo Premiership final hoping not to suffer a similar fate in the Super Rygbi Cymru. Llandovery ended up as cup and Premiership winners last season and have added a shiny new all-weather playing surface to their Church Bank home since the Black […]
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Gwalia Lightning sit at the top of the Celtic Challenge league table and hit the road for Round 3 of the competition to face Clovers in Belfast at the Kingspan Stadium, on Saturday, January 4th (KO:11.30am). The Welsh side have a played two and won two record and have a 100 percent record so far […]
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Brython Thunder travel to face Edinburgh after two improved performances and will be looking for a first win of this campaign at the Hive Stadium, on Saturday, January 4th (KO: 2pm). Welsh international Natalia John captains the side for a third time and is partnered by fellow Welsh second row Gwen Crabb in the Thunder […]
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January marks the completion of my first year as CEO of the Welsh Rugby Union. After the first six months of my tenure we launched our new headline strategy for the game in Wales, in June 2024. We have called this strategy ‘One Wales… where rugby matters more’ and in the last six months we […]
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Ebbw Vale fly half Evan Lloyd will have the honour of being the leading points scorer of Super Rygbi Cymru heading into the New Year. Lloyd has been an ever present near the top of the points table all season, but his lead has been decimated with RGC’s Billy McBryde now a single point behind […]
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Bridgend head coach Scott Baldwin praised “class act” Luke Price after he orchestrated a stunning six-point, 38-19 win for the Ravens at RGC. Former Ospreys man Price, who was an early replacement for Ben Burnell, who was forced off with a hamstring injury, pulled the strings at outside half for the visitors – while adding […]
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Ebbw Vale avenged their Gwent derby defeat at Pontypool with a thoroughly convincing 34-3 win in the return clash at Eugene Cross Park. Tries from No 8 Ryan Jenkins, skipper Joe Franchi, right wing Harry Rees-Weldon and replacement Ieuan Morris, along with a penalty try, helped secure the maximum six points for Ebbw. Outside half […]
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The former Welsh Rugby Union president Gerald Davies has been knighted in the New Year’s Honours list for services to rugby union and voluntary and charitable service in Wales. He becomes only the third Welsh rugby international to be honoured in this way following in the footsteps of Sir David William Evans in 1925 and […]
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The former Welsh Rugby Union president Gerald Davies has been knighted in the New Year’s Honours list for services to rugby union and voluntary and charitable service in Wales. He becomes only the third Welsh rugby international to be honoured in this way following in the footsteps of Sir David William Evans in 1925 and […]
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Dewi Lake is in danger of missing the Six Nations after having biceps surgery.
The Wales captain suffered the injury in training with Ospreys before Christmas and on Monday the region’s head coach, Mark Jones, was able to give a more accurate prognosis. He revealed the 25‑year‑old hooker could be out for as long as 12 weeks, which would rule him out of the entire Six Nations.
Continue reading...Gwalia Lightning did the double over Brython Thunder in the second Welsh derby over the festive period in a tense and tight affair at Parc y Scarlets on Saturday afternoon with a 10-0 victory. Wales prop Maisie Davies and fly half Carys Hughes scored all visitors points against their Welsh rivals in Llanelli. Davies scored […]
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Ebbw Vale are hopeful of restoring Evan Lloyd to their side for the return game against Pontypool in Super Rygbi Cymru after he was forced to pull out in the warm-up at Pontypool Park last weekend. Without their ace goalkicker and chief tactician The Steelmen fell to a 23-16 defeat as they lost ground at […]
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Swansea RFC will stage a minute’s silence ahead of their Super Rygbi Cymru game against Aberavon at St Helen’s on Saturday 28 December to honour the memory of one of their greatest players, Geoff Wheel. The 32-times capped Wales second row passed away on Boxing Day at the age of 73. He had been suffering […]
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Brython Thunder will host Gwalia Lightning in the second Celtic Challenge Welsh derby during the festive period at Parc y Scarlets on Saturday. (KO: 2.30pm). Lightning beat Thunder 42-22 in the first of the Celtic Challenge Welsh derbies in a 10-try thriller at Ystrad Mynach last Saturday, to kick-off the new expanded home and away […]
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The Welsh Rugby Union will make a new lead appointment for the women’s game in Wales as a result of the review undertaken to examine its processes around recent contract negotiations with its senior Women’s national squad. The high profile role will directly manage the Wales Women head coach as well as set and implement […]
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