Danny Wilson admits lifting a trophy in his final game as Cardiff Blues head coach would be the cherry on the cake. The Blues face Gloucester in the European Rugby Challenge Cup Final at Bilbao on Friday night.(8pm)

Ellis Jenkins will captain Cardiff Blues in the European Challenge Cup final against Gloucester on Friday night (8pm) Jenkins, who was named Wales co-captain earlier in the week is one of 10 changes to the starting line-up that faced the Ospreys two weeks ago.

Danny Wilson hailed his side’s European Challenge Cup win over Pau as the best of his three year tenure in charge at Cardiff Blues. The 16-10 win set-up a possible perfect leaving present for the Blues head coach, and his assistant Matt Sherratt, before they move on this summer to Wasps and the Ospreys respectively. “For your last game in charge at home to be a European semi-final win is something really special and something I will certainly treasure,” said an emotional Wilson.

Gareth Anscombe admits European Challenge Cup final opponents Gloucester are a “class team” who stand between Cardiff Blues and glory in Bilbao. The Wales outside-half scored his team’s only try as the Blues dug in for a gritty 16-10 semi-final victory over Pau at the Arms Park. The win means the Blues will face Gloucester […]

Europe is often a Welsh-free zone at this time of the rugby season. Not this year, with the Scarlets and Cardiff Blues appearing in high-profile semi-finals. Robin Davey finds reasons why both should go through to their respective finals. We are reaching the business end of the season and it’s great to see Welsh rugby still has deals to clinch. Two of the regions will be battling it out on Saturday in their efforts to reach the final of a European competition.

Danny Wilson has called on his Cardiff Blues to back up their European Champions Cup qualification by reaching the final of the Challenge Cup. The Blues head coach has achieved the first target of guiding the region back into Europe’s top tournament next season.

Alex Cuthbert is determined to leave the Cardiff Blues back among Europe’s elite before he leaves for Exeter Chiefs this summer. The Wales wing will face the Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, hoping to end the Blues’ four year spell outside of the Champions Cup.

Danny Wilson insists his Cardiff Blues will battle to the end in their quest for a Guinness Pro14 play-off place – despite a shattering late defeat in South Africa. The Blues coach spoke of his pride in seeing his players almost defy the odds before a last gasp penalty try saw them slip to a 29-27 defeat to the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein. It followed a nightmare 55-hour journey that followed numerous flight delays and cancellations.

Danny Wilson has paid tribute to his coaching team for helping mastermind Cardiff Blues’ march to the European Challenge Cup semi-finals. The Blues head coach – who is leaving at the end of the season – plotted the 20-6 victory over Edinburgh at Murrayfield that has set up a home semi-final against French club Pau on the weekend of April 20-22. But Wilson has praised the contributions of backs coach Matt Sherratt, assistant Richard Hodges, and defence consultant Shaun Edwards for putting their team one step from the final of Europe’s second tier tournament.

Cardiff Blues coach Danny Wilson has warned his team they will need to be up for a scrap when they face pugnacious Richard Cockerill’s Edinburgh on Saturday evening. The Blues are at Murrayfield for their European Challenge Cup quarter-final on the back of five successive victories and a feelgood vibe unfamiliar for almost a decade at the Arms Park.

Danny Wilson believes his Cardiff Blues team are rolling into form at exactly the right time as they chase two trophies. The Blues coach – who is leaving to join Wasps at the end of the season – paid tribute to his players after what he called a “dominant” performance in beating Ulster 35-17 at the Arms Park on Saturday. The victory was the Blues’ fifth in succession and leaves them just three points off third-place in Conference A of the Guinness Pro14.

Cardiff Blues have confirmed that John Mulvihill has been appointed to take over from Danny Wilson as head coach. It brings to an end a long and winding route for the region who believed they had both Geordan Murphy and Jim Mallinder lined up, only for those appointments to fall through. Following Wilson’s decision to move on at the end of the season, the search for a successor was undertaken in conjunction with the Welsh Rugby Union.