Hughes signs new contract

One of Welsh rugby’s brightest young talents, Wales U20s scrum-half Archie Hughes, has signed a new contract with the Scarlets. Having started his rugby journey with Tenby RFC juniors, Hughes burst onto the senior stage with two tries on his debut in a pre-season game against Nottingham at Parc y Scarlets

Who scored Wales’ first Rugby World Cup try?

Mark Ring was never slow in coming forward when he was playing for Cardiff, Pontypool and Wales, but the midfield maestro was once caught out in a local quiz when he should have been the centre of attention.  The quiz took place at the Nine Giants public house in Rhiwbina and

Wales announce squad for World Rugby U20 Championship

Wales men’s U20 [interim] head coach Mark Jones has named his squad for the World Rugby U20 Championship in South Africa starting later this month. Dragons RFC’s Ryan Woodman captains the 30-player squad which consists of 17 forwards and 13 backs. There are five uncapped players included in the squad.

Wales opponents Portugal name squad to prepare for France

Portugal will be Wales’ second opponents at the World Cup in France later this year and their head coach, Patrice Lagisquet,  has named an initial 38-player squad to prepare for their second trip to the global tournament. ‘Os Lobos’ first qualified in 2003, when they found themselves in a Pool with New Zealand, Italy, Romania

Amazon Prime announced as broadcaster for summer internationals

Six Nations Rugby has confirmed that live international Rugby Union will return to Prime Video in the UK this August. Prime Video will broadcast in the UK all of Wales, England, Scotland, France and Italy’s matches including Wales’ home matches of the Vodafone Summer Series against England and South Africa,

Butchers back and ready for business end of Premier15s season

Alisha Butchers is back and ready to push for honours with Bristol Bears as the Allianz Premier15s reaches the business end of the season.  The 39-times capped flanker, who celebrates her 26th birthday this month, hadn’t played since damaging her knee in the opening game of the World Cup in

Decision day on final four in Premier15s

The final line-up for the Allianz Premier 15s semi-finals will be decided in the final round of fixtures in the regular league campaign this weekend (Saturday, 3 June).  Gloucester-Hartpury have already clinched top spot and will host either Bristol Bears in a west country derby or former champions Harlequins in