Dragons new boy hoping for Tompkins reunion

The last time new Dragons recruit Max Clark played with current Wales centre Nick Tompkins was in the Under 20 Junior World Championship final in Italy. That was in an England side that had already beaten Wales and went on to finish as runners-up to New Zealand in 2015. Now

Testing week in store for Wales Women

Wales Women head coach Ioan Cunningham has made no apologies for pushing his players to their limits this summer as they build towards the World Cup in New Zealand in October. The former Scarlets coach has named a 37-player squad to travel to Canada this weekend for a training week

WRU joins forces with Cardiff Met to introduce ground-breaking programme

The Welsh Rugby Union in collaboration with Cardiff Metropolitan have launched a ground-breaking Women in High Performance Coaching Programme to enhance the opportunities for women within the performance pathway. At the launch of the programme, WRU performance director Nigel Walker said it was important that the WRU is seen as

Ashton speeding back to action at last

Ashton Hewitt can still recall the brace of tries he scored in his last outing for the Dragons – some achievement given the game was on 3 April, 2021. A knee injury picked up in the act of scoring his second try in that European Challenge Cup game against Northampton

Watch Canada v Wales live on S4C

Wales Women’s rugby team will take on Canada later this month and the match will be shown live and exclusively on S4C. With preparations for this year’s Rugby World Cup already underway, Ioan Cunningham and his team will fly across the Atlantic for a week-long training camp in Canada. At

‘Conflicted’ Cheika tears up with Pumas victory

Pumas coach Michael Cheika admitted he felt “conflicted” during his side’s seven try demolition of Australia in round two of The Rugby Championship. Aussie-born Cheika, who will be bringing his side to Wales for the Autumn Nations Series in November, confessed to shedding tears as the last try went in

Springboks set for Barrett barrage

Three Barretts was obviously one too many for the New Zealand selectors, but nobody expected the double World Rugby player of the year, Beauden, to get the chop for the second round Rugby Championship clash with South Africa at Ellis Park. He seemed about as droppable as Dan Carter, the