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Wembley Calling For Five Welsh Players As Season Comes To The Boil

David Brooks
Four Welsh players are heading to Wembley and there could be a fifth by around 10pm on Friday night. Leeds United’s quartet of Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon, Dan James and Connor Roberts are all into the Championship play-off final after their 4-0 demolition of Norwich City. “Towards the end of the season, there was a lot of talk about how we were playing; how we weren’t on the front foot, how we weren’t aggressive, how we weren’t clinical,” said Ampadu.

Laura Rudland Urges Cardiff Dragons To Rock The House For Final Time

Cardiff Dragons goal attack Laura Rudland has urged her team to provide a memorable farewell to fans at the House of Sport in Cardiff when they host Loughborough Lightning on Saturday. The match is the Dragons’ last at the venue this season, before they switch to the bigger Utilita Arena in the capital for their final two home games. The move is part of the club’s strategy to try and increase their fan base in tandem with changes in the Netball Superleague aimed at growing the sport more broadly.

Gladiator Hollie Smashes Rivals To Land Sixth Successive World Title

Hollie Arnold won a sensational sixth consecutive world title to give Great Britain a golden start at the World Para Athletics Championships Kobe24.

Sophie Ingle Bids to Give Emma Hayes Perfect Chelsea Send Off

Sophie Ingle Chelsea
Sophie Ingle can help provide Emma Hayes with the perfect send off to her spell at Chelsea with a seventh Women's Super League title this weekend. Wales captain Ingle’s team are back in control of the race heading into Hayes’ final game in charge.

Scarlets Bid For Uplift After Season Of Struggle And Farewells

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This time 20 years ago, the Scarlets were busy winning what was then the Celtic League and everything in their garden looked, well . . . scarlet. But 2024 appears very different to 2004 and the current side are reaching the end of their season 14th out of 16 teams in the United Rugby Championship.

Ethan Ampadu Insists Leeds United Can Roll All The Way To The Premier League

Ethan Ampadu Leeds United
Ethan Ampadu has insisted he has never lost faith that Leeds United would make it back to the Premier League this season. The Wales star played another key role in guiding Leeds to a powerful 4-0 victory over Norwich City on Thursday night at a pulsating Elland Road.

Welsh Teams Struggling In The Era Of The Ugly Scoreline

It looked like a misprint. But it was true. Gloucester did indeed lose 90-0 away to Northampton. That’s 14 unanswered tries against a club with a proud reputation as representing one of the hotbed areas of English rugby, where regulars in The Shed are renowned for their noisy allegiance.

Osian Roberts Wins Promotion With Como, Takes A Bow . . . And Then Hands Back Reins To Cesc Fabregas

Osian Roberts Como
Osian Roberts has achieved hero status in Como after winning promotion to Serie A but has no qualms stepping back for Cesc Fabregas to resume his managerial career. The Welshman masterminded Como’s return to the top flight of Italian football after a 21-year absence last Friday, and the town famous for its lake, tourism and being the home of Hollywood actor George Clooney partied long in to the night. Roberts’ great friend Ian Rush, the former Liverpool and Wales striker, has already been in touch over plans to watch his old team play Como next season.

Alex Cuthbert Weighs Up Next Move With English Clubs Poised

Alex Cuthbert Ospreys
Ospreys head coach Toby Booth has confirmed wing Alex Cuthbert is to leave the club at the end of the season. The departure of the Wales and Lions wing will bring an end to his three-year stay at the club, after joining from Exeter Chiefs in 2021. “This part of the season is always a tough time, especially when you have to say goodbye to players that have given a lot to the club over the years," said Booth.

Girls! Girls! Girls! Big Boost For Girls Golf In North Wales

More than 60 girls in North Wales can look forward to improved golf this summer thanks to the Girls Golf Cymru Programme which ran over the winter.

Lyn Jones

Neath Insist Exclusion From New Competition Is Not All Black And White

It’s safe to say Neath RFC are putting up one heck of a fight - and not for the first time in the club’s proud history. When they were denied a place in the WRU’s new Elite Domestic Competition (EDC), they made their feelings known in no uncertain terms, calling... Read More

Whatever Happened To Those Oldies Who Played For Wales?

Dai Sport contributor Simon Thomas explains the background to his new book ‘Rugby Lives’. It all started with a question that kept on popping up in my head: “I wonder what happened to so and so?” Now the identity of “so and so” would change from week to week and... Read More

Martyrs Pay Tribute To Fearless Frank - Former Centre-Back Who Climbed Floodlight Pylons To Insert Bulbs

Merthyr Town have paid tribute to fearless Frank Hegarty, an uncompromising centre-half from the 1960s. Hegarty, whose immediate family originally lived in Galon Uchaf, passed away last month. Former Martyrs player-manager Ken Tucker, who called Hegarty into the Southern League team in 1967, said: “Frank was the most reliable person I have... Read More

Lyn Jones And Nigel Owens Get Ready To Start Rugby's Japanese Game Show

The greatest rugby show on earth kicks-off in Tokyo today and, if you were a gambling man, you'd surely predict it is going to be the biggest and best of all the editions of Rugby World Cup. It is the first outside one of the major rugby nations, has more... Read More

Bears Are Tamed As Jersey Luc Beats Russian Lyn

Lyn Jones and his World Cup-bound Russia have been left with red faces after losing to Jersey Reds in Moscow. The former Wales coach asked his son Luc – Jersey’s scrum-half - to help arrange the fixture after Cardiff Blues pulled out of a trip to face The Bears. He... Read More

Lyn Jones And Son Luc Help With The Bears' Necessities

It will be father against son at the Slava Stadium in Moscow today when Russia continue their build-up to the Rugby World Cup with a game against Jersey Reds. The Bears were due to play Georgia this week, but that game was cancelled on security grounds. They then invited Cardiff... Read More
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