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Super Rygbi Cymru returns this weekend with top of the table Cardiff heading to Church Bank to face last season’s double winners Llandovery. After seven rounds of games at the start of the season the 10 teams were given a near month long break before they start the next phase of league fixtures. The next […]
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Warren Gatland wants his Wales team to display “passion and desire” when they take on South Africa in their third and final Autumn Nations Series game at Principality Stadium at the weekend. “I think the fans want to see some passion and desire and for the players to go out there and show what it […]
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Senior men’s head coach Warren Gatland has named the Wales team to face South Africa in the third and final match of the 2024 Autumn Nations Series at Principality Stadium on Saturday 23 November (KO 17.40h GMT, live on TNT Sports and S4C). There are five changes to the starting XV from last weekend’s match […]
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The last rites, if that is what they are, are going to drag on a while longer yet. On Wednesday, Warren Gatland reiterated that he would resign as head coach if it were “in the best interests of Welsh rugby”, while also making it very clear that in his opinion it is not.
Gatland says he had the conversations with his family and his employers after Wales lost 52-20 to Australia on Sunday, their 11th straight defeat. Whatever was said, it has left him “focused solely on preparing the team for this week”.
Continue reading...Gwalia Lightning will host Brython Thunder in a mouth-watering festive Welsh derby to kick-off the new expanded home and away Celtic Challenge tournament at the end of December. Lightning will play Welsh rivals Thunder in Round 1 of the tournament at Ystrad Mynach on Saturday, December 21st (KO: 2.30pm.) The Celtic Challenge has unveiled its […]
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Aaron Wainwright wants his Welsh teammates to “make things right” and “give the fans something to cheer about” when they take on South Africa in their final Autumn Nations Series match at Principality Stadium on Saturday. To do that the Dragons back row star wants to try to replicate the fightback in the second quarter […]
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Aussie coach Joe Schmidt has urged Dewi Lake’s Welsh side to stick with the “pride and character” they showed against his team when they take on the world champion Springboks in their final Autumn Nations Series game at the weekend. While Schmidt was delighted to have cleared the second hurdle in his side’s bid to […]
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Adam Beard (Ospreys) has been released from the Wales senior men’s squad. This is following a knee injury sustained in Sunday’s match against Australia.
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Warren Gatland talked about the “real hurt” his side are feeling at the post-match press conference after his side had fallen to Australia yesterday. But the Wales head coach expects a character-defining reaction against the world champion Springboks in the final Autumn Nations Series match at Principality Stadium on Saturday (Kick-off 5.40pm). “When you’re involved […]
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A defiant Wales skipper Dewi Lake remains confident his side can turn around the record run of defeats and “go places” in the not too distant future. The Ospreys hooker confirmed that his squad are hurting just as much as the fans in the wake of the 52-20 defeat to Australia. Next up are the […]
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The record-breaking wins against Wales and England have been built on a bedrock of principles that don’t make the highlights reels
It took less than two minutes for Australia to show their continued progress under Joe Schmidt. Having secured the ball they set about their work with Nic White zipping short passes to narrow runners who charged straight and hard into contact. And again. And again. And again. In no time they’d worked their way to a 13th phase before a spill of the ball handed Wales a scrum on their own 22. The move didn’t yield any points but it offered a glimpse of what is possible under this new regime.
Last week Australia snatched a remarkable victory at Twickenham with true blue Aussie gumption. Lightning hands, down the line, into the corner via tap-ons and sidesteps. It was a remarkable display of razzle-dazzle pulled off by naturally gifted ballers with licence to strut their stuff when the chance is on. But that’s always been there and, as long as 15 blokes show an interest in taking the field for some union footy, they’ll be there whether or not the code recedes from the mainstream. What this group needed was some steel and discipline, a dose of patience to go with their panache. That’s what wins Test matches.
Continue reading...Welsh rugby has lost one of its great stalwarts following the passing of international referee Ken Rowlands. Rowlands served refereeing in Wales for more than 50 years, after initially taking up the whistle after being told he wasn’t good enough to play for Ynysbwl. After spending two years refereeing at Youth and Welsh District […]
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Jac Morgan says Wales are “working hard towards the weekend” after picking themselves up from the disappointment of just being shaded by Fiji in their opening Autumn Nations Series game at Principality Stadium. The Ospreys flanker is one of four changes to the side that started against Fiji for Sunday’s third showdown of the year […]
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Ben Thomas doesn’t like to make a fuss about anything he is doing and so when Warren Gatland declared before the Autumn Nations Series that he was “the best back in Wales” it led to a lot of ribbing from his Cardiff Rugby teammates. Gatland had every right to make his bold statement given the […]
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