Mick McCarthy insists Cardiff City are playing for more than just pride even though their play-off hopes are officially over. Failure to hold on to a 1-0 lead at Brentford on Tuesday night means the small mathematical chance the Bluebirds had of climbing back into the top six have gone. But McCarthy was still pleased with his side’s performance in the 1-1 draw at the club laying fourth in the Championship and reckons players are striving to build foundations for themselves and the club for next season.

Steve Cooper has conceded Swansea City are now looking to secure a place in the play-offs after admitting their hopes of automatic promotion to the Premier League are almost certainly over. The Swansea City head coach saw his team lose 1-0 at home to QPR to leave them nine points behind Watford with only three matches left. The Swans would also need to make up a gap of 14 in terms of goal difference. Needing a victory to keep in touch with second-place Watford after their rivals’ 1-0 win at already promoted Norwich City, the Swans fell to their third defeat in their last four home games.

Alun Wyn Jones has signed a new one-year contract to stay in Welsh rugby and could yet reach a fifth World Cup. Jones, 35, is world rugby’s most capped player and a firm favourite to captain the British and Irish Lions on their tour of South Africa this summer. But he shows no signs of slowing down and was in sensational form as Wales claimed the 2021 Six Nations title.

Laura McAllister has vowed to live and fight another day after falling short in her bid to win a seat on FIFA council. Attempting to become the first women from the UK – and first person from Wales – to get onto world football’s top table, McAllister was beaten by Italy’s Evelina Christillin for the position of UEFA’s female representative. The 55 member associations voted 33-22 in favour of Christillin, the incumbent but McAllister – who earned widespread backing from current and ex-players across Europe – intends to stand again with her progressive agenda.

Cardiff Met is to become home to a franchise in wheelchair basketball’s new Women’s Premier League. The British Wheelchair Basketball Women’s Premier League will be the first of its kind for women’s wheelchair basketball in the world and the very first professional para-sport league in the UK. Franchises will be based at four UK universities renowned for their prowess in various sports – Cardiff Metropolitan University, Loughborough University, University of East London and University of Worcester.

Cardiff City have four games left in this season’s Championship campaign and are already planning for next season, rather than the play-offs. The future could start tonight, when they travel to Brentford, with manager Mick McCarthy anxious to inject some young blood and fresh ideas into his line-up. Jack Price considers the options. A recent stagnation in form has left Cardiff City’s play-off ambitions in tatters, all but confirming another season of Championship football. With a play-off place now only possible through some kind of statistical miracle, the primary target at the club will be to plan for the future and look ahead to next term.

Dwayne Peel has spoken of the “special bond” between Scarlets fans and the region after turning his back on Cardiff Blues to return to Llanelli. The former Wales and British & Irish Lions scrum-half Dwayne Peel will go back to his old side as head coach this summer from Irish province Ulster. Peel had agreed a deal to join Cardiff Blues for the 2021-22 season as the man in charge of their attack and signed a contract to that effect.

FIFA candidate Laura McAllister has joined the groundswell of condemnation towards plans for a European Super League – labelling them as an “existential threat”. McAllister – who is bidding to become the first Welsh person and first British woman to win a seat on FIFA council – has said the proposals for a breakaway tournament featuring Europe’s richest clubs goes against everything most fans, players and clubs believe in. The former Wales captain, now professor of politics at Cardiff University, is currently in Switzerland for the UEFA executive committee meeting where she is standing for election as their women’s representative on FIFA council.

Daniel Jervis is preparing to live out his boyhood dream of becoming an Olympian after delivering on his promise to “smash it” on super Sunday. Wales’ Commonwealth Games silver medalist is set to be in Tokyo for the Games this summer after winning the men’s 1500m freestyle final in the final session of the British Swimming selection trials in London. After winning the 800m but narrowly missing out on the selection time earlier in the week, Jervis delivered the dominant performance he had promised in the longer event.

It’s now three goals in two games for Swansea City’s Liam Cullen – albeit over a three-month period. The 21-year-old returned to the Swansea squad for the first time at the weekend since scoring twice in the FA Cup win against Nottingham Forest on January 24th, a tie which also saw him limp off late on with an ankle injury. It initially appeared he would play no further part in the 2020/21 campaign, but after just two first team training sessions, his place among the substitutes came somewhat ahead of schedule.

Swansea City will review their match day security arrangements after a Wycombe Wanderers fan got into the Liberty Stadium to watch the 2-2 draw. Referee Keith Stroud stopped the game after a Wycombe attack in the dying minutes and came across to the halfway line to summon the club’s head of security. The official pointed out the fan and he was removed by two stewards.

Liam Williams’ bid to become Wales’ 13th boxing world champion ultimately ended in courageous defeat in Florida on Saturday night. The Clydach Vale man bravely picked himself up off the canvas after a disastrous opening two rounds to take reigning WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade all the way. Few would have predicted the fight going the distance after Andrade completely dominated the first six minutes, putting Williams down in the second round with a right-left combination.

It’s as you were at the top of the JD Cymru Premier table after joint-leaders The New Saints and Connah’s Quay both maintained the pace with respective 1-0 victories over Penybont and Barry Town. Louis Robles’ strike three-minutes into the second-half was enough to secure a third-successive victory under new Saints boss Anthony Limbrick, with […]

Steve Cooper insists Swansea City are still fighting for automatic promotion despite admitting “time was precious” following his side’s 2-2 draw with Wycombe Wanderers. The gap between Swansea and second placed Watford is now down to six points after the latter surprisingly lost at Luton. Both contenders have four games to play and are due to meet at Vicarage Road on the final day of the season.

Alys Thomas has admitted she has a busy weekend of thanking people who helped her book a likely spot to Tokyo and the Olympics this summer. Wales’ Commonwealth Games champion confessed she had been ignoring messages on her phone after coming from behind to storm to victory at the British Olympic trials in London. Her victory – achieved inside the Games consideration time – in the women’s 200m butterfly means Thomas is set to be included in the Great Britain squad for her first Olympic Games at the age of 30.

Mick McCarthy was left ‘raging’ after seeing Cardiff City throw away victory at Reading. Kieffer Moore looked to have given the Bluebirds victory with his penalty three minutes from time.

By Rob Carbon Rugby memorabilia from two of the greatest centres of the last century will go under the hammer at a Welsh auction house on Saturday, 17 April, with prices set to reach record levels. Hidden away in a unit on the Llandough Industrial Estate, a couple of punts away from where Louis Rees-Zammit […]

If Anthony Limbrick didn’t acknowledge it at the time of his appointment as The New Saints head coach, he will have certainly acknowledged it by now. That is, he has been dealt an ace card in fit-again Ryan Brobbel. Limbrick has inherited an elite squad relative to the Cymru Premier and their aspirations of domestic […]

Sir Gareth Edwards has led the tributes to his former captain and coach, John Dawes, who has died at the age of 80. Having served under him when Wales won the Grand Slam in 1971, and on the victorious British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand later in the same year, Edwards then saw the other side of his former captain as the Wales coach. Dawes coached Wales between 1974-79 when they won four Triple Crowns and two Grand Slams. He won 18 of his 24 games in charge.

Dragons coach Dean Ryan has paid tribute to Lewis Evans’ “outstanding achievement” after the decision of the back row forward to retire. Evans has chosen to hang up his boots after a record-breaking 236 appearances for the region over a mammoth 15-year spell. The 33-year-old make his debut back in 2006 – in a back row that included former Wales captain Colin Charvis – and director of rugby Ryan said: “To play for one region as successfully and for as long as Lewis has is an outstanding achievement.