Former Cardiff City striker Gethyn Hill has rejoined EvoStik Southern League Premier Division club Merthyr Town. Pontypool-born Hill, aged 24, has committed to the Martyrs, who are intent on building a challenge for promotion during 2019-20. Manager Gavin Williams looks certain to be in charge despite being linked with the vacancy at Yeovil Town, who […]

The Cardiff Devils have agreed to a new five-year deal with head coach Andrew Lord. Managing Director Todd Kelman explained the agreement with his long-term coach, saying: “Andrew has been Cardiff’s head coach since our ownership group took over in the summer of 2014. “We have seen a fit ew-year period of success on and […]

Daniel James can cope with the burden of becoming a Manchester United star, according to, arguably, the club’s biggest ever. Wales manager Ryan Giggs played more games than anyone else at United – 963 – and won more trophies with 34 over the course of 22 seasons. James is just starting out on his Old Trafford journey as he nears completion of an £18m move from Swansea City and at 21 is already four years older than his national manager was when he first played for the club.

Welsh archers have been feared and revered across Europe for centuries and the modern day equivalent of the longbowmen of Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt fame have chalked up another notable victory. For the first time in more than a decade, the Welsh archery team triumphed at the All British & Open Field Archery Championships in Northern Ireland. Hosted by Lough Cuan Bowmen at Mount Stewart, last month, a magnificent seven Welsh bowmen (4,571) finished well clear of England (4,298), Northern Ireland (3,938) and Scotland to become British Field Champions.

Neil Taylor aims to gain more success dealing with Luka Modric this weekend than he did as a naïve Wales newbie almost a decade ago. Saturday’s Euro 2020 qualifier in Osijek will pitch Wales full-back Taylor up against the skills of the brilliant Modric, the Ballon d’Or holder, who will look to undermine Welsh hopes at the intimidating Stadion Gradski Vrt. Back in 2010, Taylor came on as a substitute for his Wales debut and wanted to impress then manager John Toshack by getting stuck into Modric.

Sam Davies has revealed he might have become Welsh rugby’s forgotten man had he turned his back on regional rugby. The fly-half has moved from the Liberty Stadium and the Ospreys to join the Dragons, with the intention of jogging the memory of those who have forgotten he is already a full international. Davies, now 25, won the last of his eight caps two summers ago and admits his move to Rodney Parade is all down to rekindling interest in his talent by the new Wales coaching team.

British champion Tesni Evans is heading up a female squash initiative in Wales. The World number nine, who is based in the Rhyl area, is leading a Squash Wales bid to increase the number of women and girls playing the sport. A number of women’a sessions now run throughout Wales, with sessions available for all […]

Top class rallying really is a world apart from all other major league sports: the action is staged miles from the beaten track; the extraordinary high-speed spectacle rewards like no other and, incredibly, it is a sport which offers enthusiastic local amateurs the chance to compete on the same high-profile bill as Sébastien Ogier, the reigning world champion.

Natalie Powell is set for a busy summer chasing major medals after being picked in the first wave of selections for the British Judo team to go to the World Championships in Tokyo in August. Wales’ 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medalist will be in Minsk a month earlier at the European Games. Powell will then use the event in Japan on 25-31 August to build-up towards her shot at Olympic glory in Tokyo next year.

Charlotte Carey has already been to three Commonwealth Games events with Team Wales, but now she is about to broaden her horizons after being selected to represent Team GB at the European Games in Minsk. The Abergavenny-born, Swedish-based Welsh champion received an early 23rd birthday present when she was named in a five strong British table-tennis team for Belarus. She will make her Team GB debut along with Tin-Tin Ho at the Games, which take place between June 21-30.

Daniel James is expected to complete a £15m move from Swansea City to Manchester United today. The 21-year-old winger is understood to have been released from Wales’ camp in Chester to undergo a medical and sign up for the Premier League giants. It is a move that Swansea fans have been bracing themselves for since the end of the season and they will be hoping it does not signal the start of a wave of departures from the managerless club.

A WEEK after clashing in Llanharan the South Wales Warriors and Somerset Wyverns will meet again with the extraordinary touchdown scored on Sunday causing further controversy.  The Wyverns had been unhappy that officials allowed the home side’s opening touchdown in last Sunday’s 29-6 loss at the Dairy Field believing they had ‘grounded’ the ball after punting it away towards the end of the first quarter. Somerset host the return fixture at their Victoria Park home in Taunton on Sunday (2.30pm) looking to avenge their defeat and fueled by the bitter aftertaste of the touchdown they believe shouldn’t have been allowed to stand. The club has also released a video showing the touchdown which suggests the score was wrongly awarded. 

Glamorgan captain David Lloyd believes his side’s thumping record victory over Northamptonshire suggests they are capable of mounting a promotion challenge this season. The Welsh county’s away win on Wednesday – by an innings and 143 runs – was their best winning margin in County Championship cricket since 1967 and it lifted them to the top of the Division Two table. Michael Hogan and Marchant de Lange were the bowlers who did the damage as they ripped through the Northants second innings – reducing them from 146 for 3 to 195 all out.

Will Vaulks was once paid 33p a week – but now trains alongside £86million man Gareth Bale who earns a reputed £350,000 a week. The Rotherham midfielder, who is being linked with a move to Cardiff City, was paid pennies at Falkirk as he tried to rebuild his career after being released by Tranmere. Vaulks survived thanks to his parents helping him out financially and the sacrifice has paid off as he prepares alongside Bale for Wales’ Euro 2020 qualifier against World Cup finalists Croatia.

Wales Rugby League are celebrating a successful week in the community game which saw 16 games take place, with all nine of Wales’ active community clubs fielding at least one side. It has delighted the WRL officials as there is another busy week coming up with 20 matches to be played, which includes WRL’s second annual junior “Magic Day” on Sunday – an all-day festival of rugby league at the Caerphilly Centre of Sporting Excellence in Ystrad Mynach, which sees nine games played at three age-groups over nine hours, the action starting at 9.20am.

Forwards coach Richard Kelly has praised the ‘mental toughness’ of the Wales U20 side for battling back to beat host nation Argentina in their opening game at the World U20 Championships. And now Kelly is looking for another gritty display from his young side when they take on the reigning world champions France at the same Racecourse Ground in Rosario on Saturday.

Warren Gatland’s first match after stepping down as Wales coach later this year will be against the team he has guided for over a decade. Gatland, who leaves his post after the World Cup in Japan, has been appointed Barbarians coach for a fixture against Wales in Cardiff on 30 November. The first meeting between the sides since 2012 will also be Wayne Pivac’s first outing as Gatland’s successor.

Kyra Jones believes the 2019 season will prove a turning point for the Celtic Dragons, but admits frustration that it could have been even better. Wales’ only team in the Vitality Netball Superleague, the Dragons finished seventh in the 10-team table, a placing that sounds modest enough but should be viewed in the context of what had gone before. In 2018, the Dragons finished bottom. The previous year, 2017, saw them last again, whilst in 2016 they were bottom-but-one in the eight-team structure.

Ryan Giggs is backing his “Mr Reliable” to get back to the Premier League. Joe Allen will be tasked with matching Real Madrid mega-star Luka Modric when he wins his 50th Welsh cap in Croatia this weekend, but will then have to return to playing in the Championship at Stoke City for a second season this winter. But Giggs believes the 29-year-old is still good enough to get back into the top flight and repeat the form he showed there previously with Swansea City, Liverpool and Stoke.

As anticipated, the Champions League final attracted massive interest with an estimated 60,000 ticketless fans making their way to Madrid last week where Liverpool beat Tottenham. In rugby, though, as Robin Davey notes, few fans are buying battered old cars to drive to Grenoble to watch the Dragons. It’s not only among the Brexit brigade where they are cool towards Europe, it’s much the same when it comes to rugby fans according to figures which have just been released. Of 34 clubs, regions and provinces which play in either the Heineken Champions Cup or Challenge Cup competitions, as many as 27 show that attendances for their domestic league matches are higher (in some cases considerably higher) than for games in their respective European tournaments.