The biggest rugby crowd of the season in Wales for a non-international game is likely to gather at the Swansea.Com Stadium on Wednesday evening – and there won’t be a professional player in sight. It’s the BUCS Super Rugby quarter-finalists, Swansea and Cardiff Universities, who go head-to-head in a men’s and women’s double-header in the Welsh Varsity Match – a clash that is live on S4C Clic. There were 13,000 fans at the Principality Stadium for the last edition in 2019 before COVID struck. And it’s expected this season’s gate could be 15,000.

By Harry Corish Wales and Bournemouth striker Kieffer Moore has been accused of elbowing Flynn Downes by Swansea City head coach Russell Martin. The former Cardiff City forward scored two goals to inspire Bournemouth to a 3-3 comeback draw against the Swans on Tuesday night. Moore, who came on as a substitute following 10 weeks […]

Rhuddlan’s Caolan Burford became the first home winner of the Welsh Men’s Open Stroke Play for nine years, in one of the strongest ever showings for Welsh players at the event. Welsh players took seven of the top nine places, including Royal Porthcawl’s Matt Roberts as runner-up at Ashburnham Golf Club near Llanelli, with Sweden’s David Lundgren in third.

By Paul Evans Osian Pryce has made the perfect start to his British Rally Championship campaign by winning the opening round of the 2022 series, the Corbeau Seats Rally Tendring & Clacton (23/24 April), in his Demon Tweeks-backed Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. Co-driven by Noel O’Sullivan, Pryce made a solid start on Saturday night’s two […]

By Paul Jones Neco Williams says he will be returning to Liverpool a “more mature and improved player” after helping Fulham win promotion from the Sky Bet Championship. Williams, who joined Fulham on loan in January, has been linked with an Anfield exit this summer to get more regular game-time with Trent Alexander-Arnold blocking his […]

By Rob Carbon Defeats to Grand Slam chasing England and France may have dented Welsh pride, but head coach Ioan Cunningham is still pleased with the progress his side is making in the TikTok Six Nations. Having trailed 33-0 against the French on Friday night, Siwan Lillicrap’s team showed plenty of courage to contain their […]

Tickets for next season’s Six Nations matches to watch Wales in Cardiff will hit £130 for the first time, it has been announced. For Stuart Taylor, it indicates the Welsh Rugby Union has lost touch with financial reality for all but the very richest. Being a Welsh rugby fan has never been for the faint-hearted, such is the undoubted turbulent nature of the game this side of Offa’s Dyke. You only have to look at recent history as a screenshot for evidence of the highly tempestuous state the Welsh rugby team seems to unwittingly get trapped in. 

By Rob Carbon CARDIFF MET 0 – 2 CARDIFF CITY Bluebirds boss Iain Derbyshire was almost speechless after he saw two of his most talented teenagers secure a revenge win for Cardiff City ladies to end the season as FAW Welsh Cup winners. The win overturned the defeat they had suffered against Cardiff met in […]

Once again Elfyn Evans had to dig deep to salvage a points-scoring result – but fifth on the Croatia Rally was not the fuel-injection boost his FIA World Rally Championship title aspirations needs. He has the speed to win rallies. In the Toyota Yaris Rally1, he has the car to win the title.

Young gun Will Reed returned from Dragos duty in South Africa to help Newport win the first leg of a potential historic league and cup double this season. The fly-half helped Newport to a 25-21 cup final win over Aberavon in the Indigo Premiership Cup, kicking 15 points off the tee and then securing the final turnover to win the game for the Black and Ambers. Reed was returning from the tour to South Africa where he played in the United Rugby Championship and, despite the Dragons’ poor results in the tournament, youngster Reed was determined to help Newport win the Cup.

Bournemouth manager Scott Parker has praised the work done by Russell Martin at Swansea City and predicted a tough challenge for his promotion-chasers on Tuesday night. Despite the fade out of the Swans’ own play-off challenge, Parkers believes his team will face a difficult assignment at a club who are now on an eight-match unbeaten run. Martin watched his team draw 1-1 at home to Middlesbrough on Saturday – a result that ended any faint hope of the head coach’s first season ending with a top six finish.

Cardiff Met may have their eyes firmly fixed on an impressive Welsh women’s football cup double, but Cardiff City skipper Siobhan Walsh claims the time is right for her club to get back on the winning trail. Five times the two teams have met this season and the Bluebirds haven’t been able to pick up a win to date. That list of failures also includes an agonising late defeat in the Genero Adran Trophy final.

With the countdown clock to the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony now below 100 days, Welsh athletes have been competing across the globe in preparation. Some, who have already achieved the nomination standards, are fine-tuning their form and fitness ahead of the games in Birmingham this summer. Others are still chasing those standards here, across Europe and in the United States where Welsh Athletics has been supporting warm weather training camps and competition opportunities for some athletes.

Rowan Jenkins will finally make good on a promise to himself at the Principality Stadium this weekend – 12 years after the Aberavon stalwart was denied at the same venue. In 2011, the Wizards reached their first Premiership Cup final in 36 years. When Jenkins missed out on the game, he didn’t know it would be another dozen years before he would get the chance again. The 30-year-old prop is a cult hero at Aberavon and has earned his stripes over the years. 

Having finished runner-up in the British Rally Championship three times, and led the series many more times than that, Osian Pryce says he’s done with finishing second and is aiming for nothing less than the title this year. Runner-up in 2013 and ’14, Pryce led the BRC at half distance in 2017 before mechanical failure on the final two rounds dropped him to fifth. Since that disappointment, his first full season back in the BRC was 2021 and once again Pryce was unlucky.

By Gareth James Louis Rees-Zammit is revved up for Gloucester’s trophy treble bid after the brakes were briefly put on his Test career just two months ago. The 21-year-old has responded to being dropped for Wales’ Guinness Six Nations clash against England in February by regaining his international place and starring in Gloucester’s push for […]

Max Nagy admits he takes plenty of stick from fellow Ospreys George North and Stephen Myler, but at least they no longer look down on him. At 6ft 4in, the rangy full back is the same height as North and five inches taller than Myler, his teammates at the region. But prior to re-uniting this season, Nagy was just a small kid seeking autographs at Flanklin’s Gardens when the three of them were last together.

By Simon Gronow It’s been a busy start for competitors in the JD Tyres Welsh National Tarmacadam Championship as they faced their third event in a month when they tackled Port Talbot Motor Club’s Nigel Ferguson Fabricators Tour of Epynt. Held over the daunting Epynt range, crews faced seven special stages totaling around 70 miles […]

By David Williams Connor Roberts believes he has given Burnley a fighting chance of Premier League survival after his goal set the club on their way to a vital win against Southampton. The Wales defender’s superb strike inspired a crucial 2-0 victory against Southampton on Thursday night. The Clarets won for the first time since […]

By Harry Corish Robyn Wilkins admits she has felt more than a little jealous of her own Wales teammates as she prepares to face France on Friday night. The Gloucester player – who has been switched from outside-half to centre for the fourth round of the TikTok Women’s Six Nations tournament – is now a […]