The title race in the JD Cymru Premier is expected to go to the wire after Connah’s Quay and The New Saints cancelled each other out in the final meeting of the season between the two sides. In a nervy encounter at the Deeside Stadium, a tense performance from both sides ensured chances remained at […]

Steve Cooper insists has no preference over who or where Swansea City play in the promotion play-offs. His team will meet either Bournemouth or Barnsley over two legs, with the weekend results ensuring the Swans cannot catch Brentford for third place or, realistically, fall from fourth to sixth unless Barnsley go on a double-figure goal spree on the final day or the Swans suffered a huge defeat at Watford. That means it’s either the Cherries or the Tykes for Cooper’s team who gained a morale-boosting 2-1 win over relegation-threatened Derby County in their final home game of the regular season.

The British and Irish Lions squad will be announced on Thursday when the chosen few will be named to tour South Africa this summer. But their best asset is already known according to Scotland coach Gregor Townsend as Graham Thomas reports. The wisdom and wide experience of Warren Gatland will be the Lions’ key weapon when they take on world champions South Africa this summer, according to Gregor Townsend. Gatland and his attack coach Townsend will be deep in final selection talks next week, ahead of the announcement of the 36-man British and Irish Lions tour squad on Thursday.

Geraint Thomas is poised to claim victory on the Tour de Romandie on Sunday and quickly banish the memories of his nasty crash on the penultimate stage. The Cardiff-born rider looked set for his first stage win since the 2018 Tour de France until he crashed around 50 metres from the finish line on a raid-lashed road in Switzerland.

Steve Cooper insists he is not surprised to see Wayne Rooney struggling to avoid relegation. But the Swansea City head coach reckons it’s a reflection of the cut-throat unpredictability of the Championship, rather than defects as a budding manager in England’s greatest goalscorer. The last time Cooper came across Rooney was when the Swans boss was managing the England U17 team.

Dragons vice-captain Clare Jones has admitted her team’s first win for two years had left her almost lost for words. Jones and her teammates earned a hard-fought 48-39 victory over Surrey Storm on Friday night to give the Welsh outfit their first victory of the season following 12 straight losses in the Vitality Netball Superleague. It was the Dragons’ first win in the competition since April 2019, when they also beat Storm.

Newtown continued their impressive Play-Off Conference form with a 7-0 demolition of struggling Cefn Druids. James Davies came off the bench to a hat-trick against his former club as the Robins moved six points clear of Haverfordwest, who play tomorrow. Newtown, who have won six and drawn one of their seven matches since the split, […]

Newport County are slowly, but surely, piecing together their side for next season and midfielder-turned-defender Matty Dolan is the latest player to put pen to paper on a new contract. The 28-year-old has agreed a new two-year deal that will see him remain at Rodney Parade until the summer of 2023 and allow him to add to the 166 games he has already played for the Exiles. Currently in his fourth season after making the switch from Yeovil Town in 2017, Dolan has played a key part in the Exiles’ FA Cup runs and pushes for promotion from League Two.

A new Women’s Super League club is to be launched in Cardiff and will play in the newly formed Betfred Women’s Super League South. The club will be overseen by Wales Rugby League and will train at the University of South Wales. The side will be coached by Ian Newbury, the Wales’s Women’s Assistant Coach, and will feature many of the players expected to feature in the England v Wales international later this year.

Owen Williams should have won far more caps for Wales, insists All Blacks scrum-half TJ Perenara who rates the Welshman as one of the best players he’s played with. The 29-year-old playmaker is Perenara’s half-back partner at NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes in Japan’s Top League. Many believe Williams would be a huge asset to Wayne Pivac’s Wales, but his international career looks to be over for good having signed a long-term contract with Worcester which means he remains ineligible under the WRU’s controversial 60 cap law.

Star Welsh race walkers Heather Lewis and Bethan Davies have been selected in a five-strong Great Britain team for the 2021 European Race Walking Team Championships in the Czech Republic next month. Pembrokeshire Harrier Heather Lewis and Bethan Davies, of Cardiff Athletics, have dominated the British women’s race walking scene in recent years.

Steve Cooper has told Swansea City fans that “anything is possible” as they start the countdown to the promotion play-offs he hopes will take the club back into the Premier League. The Swans head coach is preparing his team for their final home match of the regular season against Derby County tomorrow, their first game since they clinched their place in the post-season shoot-out for the second successive season. Cooper’s team will then play already promoted Watford on the final day, with only the play-off opponents still to be resolved.

With the fall-out from the women’s Six Nations continuing, Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Steve Phillips has repeated his claim that the women’s game will get the support it requires. It was a pledge high on corporate jargon, but low on detail. Tomos Marks has a few simple suggestions – including creating a worthwhile club side in Wales to prevent 18 hours of travel. Wales finished with the wooden spoon in this year’s Six Nations, their sixth wooden spoon since the start of the home nations tournaments in the 1990’s. In contrast, England won their 17th title from 26 competitions to date. This is a sad situation for the Welsh women’s team as they just aren’t competing with their European rivals.

Mark Williams insists he is back enjoying snooker again despite his Betfred World Snooker Championship thrashing by Mark Selby. Wales’ three-time world champion Williams was beaten 13-3 by Selby with a session to spare in Sheffield to end his bid for a fourth title at the age of 46. Reaching the last eight underlined a decent tournament for the cueman from Cwm, whose world ranking has slipped to No.12 since he won a dramatic third world title in 2018.

Danny McKerlich is back on the road to being a competitive athlete again after a year he describes as “absolutely awful.” The Welsh international race walker competed in a 5K race in Leeds for the first time last week and is due to get another outing again in Stourport on May 23. After a lonely year of being forced to train on his own, the return to action is not just a welcome resumption of McKerlich’s athletics career but also a much needed lift to the mental health of the 20-year-old Cardiff Athletics walker.

Marnus Labuschagne has revealed his relief at being in Wales for another spell with Glamorgan when he might have been caught up in the coronavirus crisis in India. The Australian batsman – ranked number three in the world at present – is set to make his first appearance of the season for the county on Thursday against Kent in the County Championship. But having been overlooked in the IPL auction for players, he is instead in Cardiff for a follow up spell after his prodigious first season with Glamorgan in 2019.

Connah’s Quay can extend their lead at the top of the Cymru Premier tonight after The New Saints’ title challenge was hit with a new setback. The New Saints had hoped to bounce back from Saturday’s comprehensive defeat against Connah’s Quay with an improved display against Caernarfon Town – but Anthony Limbrick’s side could only […]

Wales’s Para legend Aled Davies will chase his fourth successive F63 shot-put title at the European Championships in Poland in June. The six-time Euro champ is one of seven Welsh para-athletes names in the GB team for the championships in Bydgoszcz from June 1-5.

Heartbroken George North will miss this summer’s Lions tour to undergo knee surgery that will sideline him for at least six months. North was in stunning form as he helped Wales to win the Six Nations last month and his career has been revitalised by a move from wing to centre. The 29-year-old was a virtual certainty to make Warren Gatland’s Lions squad for the Test series with South Africa when it is confirmed on May 6.

Michael Flynn has told his Newport County team to collect the remaining six points that will take them into the League Two play-offs. The County manager hailed an “absolutely outstanding” first-half performance from his team after the Exiles hammered Scunthorpe United 4-0. A comfortable victory means their play-off hopes remain in their own hands with two games of the regular season left to play.