Tomas Francis has traded the sparkling champagne and oysters of French rugby for the flat beer and burgers of a Welsh domestic game struggling to regain its appetite, as Graham Thomas reports.

Resistance to the Welsh Rugby Union’s secret restructuring plans is intensifying, with criticism now hardening both within the Ospreys region and across the wider Welsh game.

Wales assistant coach Matt Sherratt has insisted he believes the ongoing chaos in domestic rugby is having no effect at all on his under-achieving team.

Steve Tandy has voiced his confidence in Paul James to steady Wales’ scrum after Duncan Jones was ruled out of the remainder of the 2026 Guinness Six Nations by a freak training-ground injury.

Former Scarlets and Scotland captain John Barclay has delivered a blunt assessment of where Wales went wrong in their crushing Six Nations defeat to England.

Coach Steve Tandy, captain Dewi Lake and former star now TV pundit Dan Biggar were all in agreement that Wales failed to reach an acceptable standard in a numbing defeat to England.

For generations, the opening weekend of the Five or Six Nations Championship has been a moment Welsh rugby supporters circled on the calendar with anticipation.

Aaron Wainwright insists Wales are developing a growing sense of belief and buy-in that makes them capable of causing a massive upset against England in Saturday’s Six Nations clash at Twickenham.

A near faultless first half from Wales U20 - in which they scored 16 unanswered points as they went in search of back-to-back wins over England - wasn’t enough as they lost 19-16 in Northampton.

Steve Tandy insists Wales’ overriding aim at Twickenham on Saturday is not to silence the crowd or rewrite recent history, but to show clear progress from the autumn.

Swansea RFC have hit back forcefully at suggestions they could be merged with the Ospreys.

Wales have made the bold call of picking Louis Rees-Zammit at full-back rather than deploying him on the wing for the clash with England at the Allianz Stadium, Twickenham on Saturday.

Josh Macleod is poised to finally make his Six Nations debut five years after he was first picked to play against Scotland and he’s preparing “to go to war” against England.

The Welsh Rugby Union have been put on notice of legal action over their plan to reduce the new number of professional teams by axing the Ospreys, as Graham Thomas reports.

Another week, another crisis . . . or, rather same crisis as last week and the week before that. The Ospreys saga is both modern and ancient, as Andrew Weeks considers.

Alex Mann does not shy away from confrontation. In fact, he embraces it.

The Six Nations kicks off this weekend . . . well, actually, no, it doesn’t.

Keelan Giles has placed the Ospreys supporters firmly at the heart of a dramatic derby night victory over the Dragons, as Simon Thomas reports.

Having spent some eight years with the Dragons over two spells, Angus O’Brien has shared in some tough times, as Simon Thomas reports.

The Welsh Rugby Union could be hit with a bill for a further £14m if they decide to axe the Ospreys, as Graham Thomas reports.