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Posted 262 days ago
TEENAGE WINGER Harry Robinson has signed a senior contract with Cardiff Blues.
Robinson, 19, impressed Welsh selectors and was called up to the Wales 35 man senior squad for the training camp in Poland prior to the 2012 Six Nations Championship. He made a try-scoring debut for his country in June, in the test against the Barbarians.
In 2010/11 he won the…
Posted 274 days ago
DOWN IN Perpignan Luke Charteris isn’t hard to miss. At 6ft 9in and 20st, and with that fair Celtic skin of his, he stands out a mile in the Catalan city where people tend to be shorter, stockier and slightly more bronzed. Not that the Wales lock minds the attention. “I’m loving it down here,” he tells Rugby World.
Posted 331 days ago
IT WON’T be of course. A three nil series defeat in Australia will be greeted as a failure by many. And if you are dealing purely in wins and losses, that judgement is unequivocal. However, what the Welsh team and their supporters now consider a success is very different from what was considered successful a decade ago.
Posted 339 days ago
Wales came very close to beating the Wallabies on Saturday – you can’t come any closer. There were certainly positives that can be taken from the performance, most notably the defence. However, you can’t expect to beat Australia, in Australia, with 36% possession and 34% territory – it’s unrealistic. Poor tactical kicking resulted in Wales playing the majority of the game in their half, without the ball. Barring Wales’s first try, there were few multi-phase sets and no periods of sustained pressure in the red
Posted 341 days ago
A THREE-TIME Grand Slam winner, Ryan Jones made his Wales debut against South Africa in 2004. He played in all three Tests on the 2005 Lions tour and led his country to their 2008 Six Nations triumph. Here are a few thoughts from the Osprey…
It’s better to have a memory than a dream. If you’ve got a chance to do…
Posted 345 days ago
Robbie Deans has named an unchanged line-up for Saturday night’s second Test against Wales in Melbourne.
Despite concerns over the fitness of Sekope Kepu, after he strained a tendon in his forearm during last weekend’s 27-19 win over Wales in the first match of the series, the tighthead prop has been named subject to proving his readiness later in the week.
Kepu…
Posted 346 days ago
THE DIFFERENCE in playing styles between the northern and southern hemispheres maybe narrowing, but the speed at which it is played is not. Wales really struggled with the pace at which the Wallabies played, particularly their ruck speed which was noticeably quicker. But it wasn’t just the speed of play that was rapid
Posted 348 days ago
WALES SENSING a first victory on Australian soil since 1969 were far too slow out of the traps against a Wallaby side desperate to atone for their humbling 9-6 midweek loss to Scotland. Under-pressure coach Robbie Deans will have been impressed with the intensity shown by his side in the first-half
Posted 350 days ago
WALES HAVE named a side to play Australia in Brisbane this weekend showing four changes from that which sealed a 16-9 victory over France last March to be crowned Champions of Europe and achieve their third Grand Slam in seven seasons.
In the front row Scarlets hooker Ken Owens replaces Matthew Rees and it’s all change in the second row with…
Posted 350 days ago
FIVE NEW forwards and three new backs feature in the starting combination, from that beaten 9-6 by Scotland midweek in Newcastle.
The alterations in the pack sees the all-New South Wales Waratahs front-row return to duty after not being required to back up from last weekend’s Super Rugby round midweek, while the Queensland Reds second rower Rob Simmons is reinstated for…
