Cardiff will host a major netball tournament during October. The Europe Open Championships will be held at Sport Wales National Centre, from Thursday, October 5 to Sunday, October 8. Wales will take on England, Scotland and Northern Ireland over the four days. England are ranked third in the World, while Wales are eighth, Northern Ireland […]

Nathaniel Mendez-Laing is hoping to teach Wolverhampton Wanderers a lesson on Saturday as the latest graduate from the Neil Warnock school of second chances. The A-level results are out, but at Cardiff City it’s the grades being gained by the club’s former footballing waifs, strays and wasters that is really catching the eye. Manager Warnock is the patron saint of the game’s lost souls – mixing old school psychology with modern sports science to coax and cajole players other clubs had given up on.

Leigh Halfpenny will be wearing a Scarlets shirt this season, much to the disappointment of his former region, the Cardiff Blues. Robin Davey believes his choice should be respected and that any draft system – for both older and younger players – would be a mistake. It’s August and it’s holiday time for many, so that means it’s the silly season when it comes to news – and rugby is no different. Hot topic this week is the draft system and whether it’s a good idea or not. Not a silly subject for sure, but silly thinking it could work in Wales.

Leigh Halfpenny will be wearing a Scarlets shirt this season, much to the disappointment of his former region, the Cardiff Blues. Robin Davey believes his choice should be respected and that any draft system – for both older and younger players – would be a mistake. It’s August and it’s holiday time for many, so that means it’s the silly season when it comes to news – and rugby is no different. Hot topic this week is the draft system and whether it’s a good idea or not. Not a silly subject for sure, but silly thinking it could work in Wales.

Defending JD Welsh Premier League champions are braced for another early season test with the visit of Bala Town to Park Hall in front of the live TV cameras (Saturday 5.15). The Saints will be looking to bounce back after suffering a rare heavy defeat last weekend in new manager Scott Ruscoe’s first league game in […]

Gylfi Sigurdsson told Swansea City he wanted to leave the club at the end of last season, Paul Clement has revealed. Sigurdsson finally completed his protracted transfer to Everton on Wednesday for a club-record fee understood to be around the £45million mark. As Swansea seek to spend the Sigurdsson cash with two or three replacements in mind, head coach Clement said the Icelandic playmaker made his feelings known to him about a summer exit after the final game of the 2016-17 season on May 21.

Swansea City are aiming to bring in Hull City midfielder Sam Clucas, although manager Paul Clement has admitted prices could rise after their £45m windfall for Gylfi Sigurdsson. The Swans are understood to have made a bid for Clucas – thought to be around £12m – as they look to re-shape their squad following Sigurdsson’s move to Everton. Hull have so far rejected a £10m bid for Clucas from Burnley as they try to plot a return to the Premier League.

Becky James – Wales’ former world champ and two-time Olympic silver medallist – is quitting cycling. The Abergavenny-born rider has decided to pursue her passion for baking by setting up a business as well as other projects.

The Ospreys have rarely flown under the radar, but change at the other three regions has left them undetected so far this summer, says Geraint Powell. When the season starts, though, that could all change. The Ospeys, without any shadow of a doubt, have been the one real success story in the post-2003 Welsh regional rugby era. A whole far greater than the sum of Swansea and Neath, and I don’t just mean replica shirt sales. Ospreylia. “The one true region”, spreading 37 miles from east to west and for 24 miles from its northern-most point to the southern coastline. Ospreylia has a total boundary of 151 miles, according to the Ordnance Survey map once commissioned. And usually financially stable as a business, at least relative to the heavily loss making Scarlets and Blues.

Cardiff Devils players hit the rapids – and came out unscathed. Their white water experience in Cardiff Bay was a major hit and forward Sean Bentivoglio said: “We had a blast.” Elite League champions Devils have two home fixtures this weekend, taking on Scottish and German opposition. Captain Jake Morissette and his team can win […]

Gylfi Sigurdsson’s move from Swansea City to Everton will turn out to be £45m well spent, insists Ronald Koeman. The Goodison Park manager has no doubt his club have landed one of the Premier League’s best playmakers in the Icelandic midfielder. Sigurdsson’s switch was completed on Wednesday night after the 27-year-old had passed a medical.

The Bluebirds have joined forces with the University of South Wales – and together they are aiming to develop football in China. Their joint target is to develop the next generation of football experts in China having launched a new international degree. The agreement will see Cardiff City FC staff assist in the recruitment of students […]

Vincent Tan has revealed his Bluebirds’ dream. Cardiff City’s owner believes manager Neil Warnock can return the club to Premier Division status and says: “If we go up and stay three seasons perhaps then I will consider selling.” Malaysian businessman Tan, who has invested £180m into the club, watched Warnock’s warriors power to a 3-0 […]

With Wales Women currently competing at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in Ireland, the club game in Wales is also set for a boost this season. Four new club teams – Cilfynydd, Clwb Rygbi Cymry Caerdydd, Tumble and Whitchurch will join Division Three after completing a set of on and off-field criteria and fulfilling a season of friendlies, while the Arrows, Jesters, Llanelli Wanderers and Mountain Ash will join the Youth Leagues this season, thanks in no small part to the success of the new girls’ cluster centres. North Wales too has seen a huge upturn in interest with three new clubs – Shotton, Holyhead and Pwllheli joining Cobra (Caereinion Old Boys Rugby Association), Welshpool and Llangollen in a new development division set-up to provide playing opportunities for women in mid and north Wales with teams agreeing to lend players or amend team numbers or match format to ensure games go ahead and rugby thrives in the region.

With Wales Women currently competing at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in Ireland, the club game in Wales is also set for a boost this season. Four new club teams – Cilfynydd, Clwb Rygbi Cymry Caerdydd, Tumble and Whitchurch will join Division Three after completing a set of on and off-field criteria and fulfilling a season of friendlies, while the Arrows, Jesters, Llanelli Wanderers and Mountain Ash will join the Youth Leagues this season, thanks in no small part to the success of the new girls’ cluster centres. North Wales too has seen a huge upturn in interest with three new clubs – Shotton, Holyhead and Pwllheli joining Cobra (Caereinion Old Boys Rugby Association), Welshpool and Llangollen in a new development division set-up to provide playing opportunities for women in mid and north Wales with teams agreeing to lend players or amend team numbers or match format to ensure games go ahead and rugby thrives in the region.

Blackpool have announced the signing of Scott Quigley with the League One club paying £35,000 rising to £50,000 for the 24-year-old forward. Quigley, one of the JD Welsh Premier League’s brightest prospects, joins on a two-year deal with an option for an additional year. A future sell-on clause has also been included as part of […]

Wales have been drawn in the same pool as England, Scotland and New Zealand at next April’s Commonwealth Games in Australia. Malawi and Uganda make-up Wales’ opponents in Pool B where world no 2 New Zealand will be hot favourites.

Chaz Davies will be hoping this weekend’s World Superbikes races in Germany spark a similar rich vein of form as last year. The Knighton-born rider resumes his campaign at the Lausitzring where he won 12 month ago on the circuit’s return to calendar.

Pink is the new red, but is winning the new feeling for Glamorgan in the NatWest T20 Blast quarter-finals? Richard Thomas sees reasons for optimism, especially if results lead to the county having to hit the road. It is pink ball time this week as England take on West Indies in the first northern hemisphere Day-Night Test match to played under the Edgbaston floodlights. And talking of pink balls, Glamorgan will need to find theirs this year if they are not to repeat making a right old horlicks of the T20 Blast quarter-finals, which they did last year against Yorkshire at Cardiff.

The Welsh Rugby Union has agreed to loan defence coach Shaun Edwards out to Cardiff Blues on a consultancy basis this season. Hot on the heels of their take-over of the Dragons, the WRU have stepped in to help the cash-strapped Blues following the loss of skills coach Paul John and rugby general manager Billy Millard. Edwards is the current Wales and former British & Irish Lions defence coach and he has already started working alongside head coach Danny Wilson and backs coach Matt Sherratt as the Blues prepare for the newly expanded Guinness PRO14 season.