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Dwayne Peel Pleased With Scarlets Surge As They Win Three In A Row

Dwayne Peel Pleased With Scarlets Surge As They Win Three In A Row
Dwayne Peel declared himself satisfied as his Scarlets team secured a third successive win in the United Rugby Championship by beating Zebre Parma 30-8 in Llanelli. Tries from Tom Rogers, Macs Page, Blair Murray and captain Josh Macleod helped Scarlets recover from Ben Cambriani’s early score for the Italians to earn the bonus point.

Rhian Wilkinson Admits Wales Have A Big Job On Their Hands After Huge Euros Setback

Rhian Wilkinson Admits Wales Have A Big Job On Their Hands After Huge Euros Setback
Rhian Wilkinson has admitted Wales have “work to do” if they are to keep alive their dream of making Euro 2025 after a shock 2-1 defeat in Slovakia. Wales’ hopes of reaching their first women’s major tournament finals are on a knife-edge following a massively disappointing performance in a 2-1 play-off first-leg defeat in Poprad.

Warren Gatland Wants Wales To Kick On . . . But Does He Have The Men For The Job?

Warren Gatland Wants Wales To Kick On . . . But Does He Have The Men For The Job?
For much of the past 30-odd years in Welsh rugby, you could rely on Welsh No.10s to do one thing well – kick their goals. They may not have all been the most devastating broken-field runners, or soft-handed distributors.

Lyn The Leap Leads New Welsh Sports Hall Of Fame Winners Onto Roll Of Honour

Lyn The Leap Leads New Welsh Sports Hall Of Fame Winners Onto Roll Of Honour
The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame added five new names to its Roll of Honour at the 33rd annual dinner at the Parkgate Hotel, Cardiff on Thursday evening. The ‘Famous Five’ took the number of inductees over the past 34 years to 186 and there were also three other special awards.

Rhodri Williams And The Long Journey Back To Wales

Rhodri Williams And The Long Journey Back To Wales
Having just reached a major career milestone, Rhodri Williams is now on course to make Welsh rugby history. The Dragons scrum-half made his 150th league appearance in last Saturday’s BKT United Rugby Championship clash with Benetton at Rodney Parade.

The New Saints In Dreamland As Craig Harrison Starts To Plot Knockout Route

The New Saints In Dreamland As Craig Harrison Starts To Plot Knockout Route
Craig Harrison is dreaming The New Saints making the knockout stages of a European tournament after they became the first Welsh Premier side to gather points at the group stage of a major European competition. TNS beat Astana from Kazakhstan, 2-0 at The New Meadow, Shrewsbury Town’s ground, to write themselves into the history books.

Time To Fatten Up The Slimmed Down Commonwealth Games With Fresh Ideas

Time To Fatten Up The Slimmed Down Commonwealth Games With Fresh Ideas
The slimming industry has always been a place for chancers with dubious strategies and now it appears they have moved into the Commonwealth Games. The only multi-sport tournament where Wales competes as an independent nation is being “slimmed down” in the words of some of the organisers, so that it is “lean and healthy.”

WRU Hire Ashley Beck And Marc Breeze For Pathway Plan

WRU Hire Ashley Beck And Marc Breeze For Pathway Plan
Former Wales centre Ashley Beck and ex-Cardiff hooker Marc Breeze have been hired by the Welsh Rugby Union as pathway coaches. The pair will work with age group teams in both the men’s and women’s game, in roles part-funded by the British and Irish Lions.

Warren Gatland Planning For Rough, Tough As Well As Flying Fijians

Warren Gatland Planning For Rough, Tough As Well As Flying Fijians
Warren Gatland is preparing for another “tough, physical encounter” against the Fijians when his Wales side open their three-match Autumn Nations Series at the Principality Stadium on Sunday 10 November. Fiji will arrive in Cardiff 60 years on from their first visit and seeking their first win on Welsh soil.

History Will Be Fine For The New Saints . . . But Winning Will Be Better

History Will Be Fine For The New Saints . . . But Winning Will Be Better
With 21 goals in their last two games The New Saints will go into their historic first home game against FC Astana in the Group stages of the UEFA Conference League on Thursday full of attacking intent. But it was a similar situation before they faced Serie A giants Fiorentina in their first game at the start of the month, when they headed to Italy on the back of a 6-1 win at Newtown.

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Gemma Grainger Insists Wales’ Bid For Finals Glory Starts In Iceland

Wales manager Gemma Grainger believes the journey to qualification for a major tournament starts on Friday night in Iceland. The fixture may be their opener in the UEFA Women’s Nations League – rather than World Cup or European Championship – but Grainger insists the route this tournament offers as a... Read More

Gemma Grainger's Mighty Warriors Suffer Heartbreak In Zurich . . . But The Bigger Picture Shows They Have Changed The Game In Wales

By Paul Jones Gemma Grainger believes Wales will use the pain of their heart-breaking World Cup near miss to fuel a successful mission to reach the finals of the 2025 Euros. The head coach admitted Wales’ World Cup exit was “incredibly tough to take” after Switzerland’s last-gasp winner had prevented a penalty... Read More

Devils Fighting The Flames In Challenge Cup Defence

Cardiff Devils are fighting for their Challenge Cup lives this weekend. Head coach Andrew Lord and his players have won this trophy twice in the last three seasons and were runners-up in 2016. But they have lost two of their three Cup group matches and the pressure is on to earn more... Read More