Category: Wales Rugby

• England’s Fin Smith, Marcus Smith and Ford all in squad
• ‘Our aspiration is to win the tournament,’ says Borthwick

Steve Borthwick is prepared to unleash his triple threat of No 10s simultaneously against Wales on Saturday, with the head coach insisting England are heading to Cardiff intending to win the Six Nations title.

Borthwick has selected Fin Smith and Marcus Smith as well as George Ford in his matchday squad for the first time and revealed deploying all three in harness is a possibility as England seek to keep their championship hopes alive on “Super Saturday”.

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Dafydd Jenkins says the actions of Wales skipper Jac Morgan are serving as an inspiration for the rest of his team this Guinness Six Nations. Morgan’s men picked up two points in their 35-29 defeat to Scotland last weekend and complete their campaign with a home clash against England at a sold-out Principality Stadium this […]

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Head coach Richard Whiffin has confirmed his Wales U20 men’s matchday squad to face England in the final round of the 2025 U20 Six Nations at Cardiff Arms Park this Friday. (KO 7.30pm, S4C). Whiffin has made four changes to the starting line-up, two enforced due to suspensions, in a side looking to deny England […]

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Matt Sherratt hailed Wales ‘brave effort’ in picking up two points from their 35-29 defeat to Scotland at Murrayfield. His side were trailing by 27 points seven minutes into the second half having conceded five tries, but they hit back to outscore their hosts three tries to one in the final 40, notching a bonus-point […]

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Nobody would have predicted Cardiff going to Llandovery and scoring a magnificent seven tries in a 52-19 win to take them back to the top of the Super Rygbi Cyrmu table – not even their own top brass! Cardiff Rugby academy manager Gruff Rees was the first to admit he never expected to see a […]

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Pontypool head coach Tom Hancock was the first to admit that his heart was in his mouth when Aberavon scored their sixth try in a helter-skelter Super Rygbi Cymru game to take a 39-38 lead with only six minutes left on the clock. Even the die-hard Pooler fans thought that was that as a hush […]

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Scarlets wing Tom Rogers and Cardiff Rugby wing Josh Adams have been released from the Wales senior men’s squad. Rogers sustained a fractured thumb against Scotland at the weekend that requires surgery, while Adams is released due to a hamstring injury in training that requires a period of rehabilitation that will be undertaken at his […]

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Dewi Lake wants Wales to give interim head coach Matt Sherratt the perfect send-off with a win over England at a passion-packed Principality Stadium on Saturday. “Matt has been excellent and it would be great to send him out on a high note for the work that he’s put in over the past four weeks, […]

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Brython Thunder clinched an impressive third win of the campaign against Glasgow Warriors in Round 10 of the Celtic Challenge at Parc y Scarlets on Sunday afternoon. The young Welsh side crossed for six tries with wing Eleanor Hing, centre Hannah Bluck, Hannah Lane, who grabbed a brace of tries, centre Gabby Healan and lock […]

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Matt Sherratt hailed Wales ‘brave effort’ in picking up two points from their 35-29 defeat to Scotland at Murrayfield. His side were trailing by 27 points seven minutes into the second half having conceded five tries, but they hit back to outscore their hosts three tries to one in the final 40, notching a bonus-point […]

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Gwalia Lightning ended their campaign with a 33-55 defeat to Irish powerhouse, Clovers, in Round 10 of the Celtic Challenge at Ystrad Mynach this afternoon. The Lightning did cross for some impressive tries with Welsh Test stars Gwenna Hopkins, Caitlin Lewis, Kelsie Webster, lock Alaw Pyrs and impressive young centres Kelsie Webster and Freya Bell […]

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There will be a new team at the top of the Super Rygbi Cymru table later today after Llandovery and Cardiff clash at Church Bank. With current leaders Ebbw Vale not playing this weekend, it means the winners will take over at the top as the race for a top two finish, and a home […]

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Wales U20 captain Harry Beddall gave his team one message in the post-match huddle at the end of their disappointing 27-12 defeat to Scotland -“stay tight and let’s rip into England next week.” Two red cards in one game was an unenviable record for Beddall’s side to take away from Edinburgh as they failed to […]

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Wales will field the same starting XV in successive matches for the first time since the pool stages of Rugby World Cup 2019 after interim head coach Matt Sherratt gave a vote of confidence to the side that went down 27-18 to Ireland in Round 3 of the Guinness Six Nations. “I thought the performance […]

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Both Gregor Townsend and Matt Sherratt have shown faith in the XVs who performed well in their most recent defeats

Neither of these two are where they want to be after three rounds. In the case of Wales, rock bottom cannot be worse than where they feared they might be; in the case of Scotland, fourth must be so much worse than they had hoped. And some might say deserve.

Eyebrows may rise, then, at the news that both coaches will more or less send out the same teams that featured in their respective defeats in round three. But Six Nations tend to have narratives more nuanced than those supplied by the table at any given moment.

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