Llanelli Town are still on course to go through the 2016-17 Welsh League season unbeaten. They have already achieved their main aim of promotion and need one more win from five matches to be sure of being crowned Division Two champions. Llanelli have won 18 and drawn seven of their 25 fixtures so far and […]

Dan Biggar could be the surprise name when Warren Gatland announces his British and Irish Lions squad on Wednesday at midday. Gatland concluded his final selection meeting on Tuesday afternoon with England’s Joe Launchbury, Jonathan Joseph, George Ford and Mike Brown all set to be absentees from his 37-man party to tour New Zealand this summer.

Barry Town United have sealed promotion to the Welsh Premier League with a 3-0 win against Goytre United thanks to goals from Luke Cooper, Tyrell Webbe and Drew Fahiya.

Barry Town United 3, Goytre United 0 Barry Town United are back. They have regained their place in the top flight of Welsh football. It has been a sensational rise by a club who were taken to the edge of extinction only four years ago and have bounced back with a style which has been […]

The talking is almost over. On Wednesday, the 2017 Lions squad will be revealed. Gareth Hughes gets inside the head of Warren Gatland, makes a stab at selection himself, and says 39 should be the magic number. Selecting a Lions touring party, and the Test team, has been the subject of much discussion and debate for the last two years. At last, we have arrived at the moment when the composition of the group is about to be announced and already the next stages of debate and arguments have begun.

Celtic Dragons are ready for the Team Bath challenge on Saturday. The teams haven’t played each other since round one in February and Dragons are fired up for a big effort. Head coach Trish Wilcox and her team are intent on bouncing back quickly from their 50-59 home defeat against Severn Stars from Worcester. “We’re […]

For Jazz Carlin the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were the culmination of the blood, sweat and tears that had marked her career in the years prior to 2016, in and out of the pool. Illness had dogged the Welshwoman who subsequently missed out on a home Olympics in London in 2012 and a year later there was an agonising fourth place in the 400m freestyle at the worlds in Barcelona.

Celtic Dragons 50, Severn Stars 59 Cardiff-based Celtic Dragons are still searching for the consistency to figure up their season. They earned their first win of the Vitality Netball Superleague season in their previous fixture, 55-52 against Sirens, and produced an intense, competitive team performance against Severn Stars. But they were edged out by nine […]

Almost 100 players aged between 6 and 14 took part in the opening Ping Welsh Junior Tour event of the season held at Parc Golf Club. On a day of tremendous scoring Josh Chamberlain from Bryn Meadows, joint winner of the U14s Order of Merit in 2016, continued from where he left off last year by winning the U14s category with a score of 48 stableford points.

Newtown have been dealt a major blow for their forthcoming Europa League Play-Off campaign after it was revealed they will be without leading scorer Jason Oswell. The Robins cemented their play-off spot on the weekend with a record 7-0 away victory against Airbus UK and will face Bangor City in their play-off semi-final. Oswell scored […]

Teenager Sam Duggan, who plays for Swedish club Orebro, is ready to enjoy one of the best ice hockey moments of his young life. Reading-born Duggan, who played junior hockey for Bracknell before going to Sweden, has been called into Great Britain’s team for the World Championships. “It’s going to be special,” says Duggan. “It […]

Niall McGuinness, the youngest top-flight manager in Europe, has revealed he wants the opportunity to rebuild Rhyl FC as they prepare for life outside of the Dafabet Welsh Premier League. The future of the 25-year old remains uncertain after the club’s fate was all but sealed on Good Friday following a heavy 4-0 defeat at […]

North Wales sailor Dan Whiteley was crowned Laser class UK champion after five days of challenging racing at the 2017 RYA Youth Nationals. The three-way tussle between Podium Potential Pathway teammates Daniel Whiteley, Jack Cookson and Sam Whaley went down to wire with places changing race-by-race.

Judgement Day offered points and plaudits for the Cardiff Blues and the Scarlets. WRU Finals Day underlined the progress made by RGC. But Geraint Powell says other results – the financial ones – point to a Welsh rugby structure that no longer adds up. Spring is always a difficult season for the non-Test tier of professional rugby in Wales, the time of year when the hybrid regions/”super” clubs are compelled by UK company law to publicly file/disclose their financial performances for the preceding rugby season.

Two games in and Glamorgan’s season already looks as though it could provide plenty of unwanted free time. Dai Sport columnist Richard Thomas says the immediate solution could be unashamedly old-school. At least they kept the caterers busy for an extra day this time, but there was still little food for comfort for a Glamorgan side who have now been comprehensively beaten in both opening County Championship matches. Defeat inside two days to Northamptonshire and a second loss on day three of their opening home match to Worcestershire reminds me of Durham in their formative first-class days in the 1990s. Like Glamorgan they never won much and their championship matches rarely ran the distance.

Former Wales and All Blacks coach Graham Henry has said the British and Irish Lions” “suicidal” itinerary could dash their hopes of being competitive during the New Zealand tour. The Lions face a tough schedule, playing all five of New Zealand’s Super Rugby sides and a match against the Maori All Blacks in addition to the three Tests in Auckland and Wellington.

Redditch United 0, Merthyr Town 1 Captain Ashley Evans earned Merthyr Town a hard-fought win against Redditch United away. The victory is a massive boost to Merthyr’s Southern League promotion hopes. They are now third in the Premier Division table and a home win against Hayes and Yeading next Saturday will ensure their play-off semi-final […]

Plymouth Argyle 6, Newport County 1 Newport County are intent on sending former Cardiff City manager Dave Jones crashing out of the Football League. Manager Mike Flynn and his County team crashed 6-1 at Plymouth Argyle, who clinched promotion, while relegation rivals Cheltenham  Town and Yeovil Town both won. Hartlepool United, where Jones is in […]

Cardiff City 1, Nottingham Forest 0 Neil Warnock has a firm instruction for Aaron Gunnarsson, telling the Icelandic midfield player: “Shoot more often and hit the target.” Gunnarsson fired Cardiff City’s winner against Forest with a beautifully struck shot from 25 yards which swerved on the way in. That was his third goal of the […]

Pontypridd coach Rob Sidoli admitted his team were deservedly beaten as RGC 1404 won the WRU National Cup for the first time. The North Walians denied their opponents a seventh Cup triumph in a hard-fought and tightly-contested 15-11 victory at the Principality Stadium on Sunday. “It was a good performance by the boys, we showed a lot of heart out there and gave it all we had,” said Sidoli.