Willis Halaholo has five daughters, aged 15, nine, six, four and ten months respectively. So what’s life like at home for the Cardiff Rugby centre and his wife?

Ospreys head coach Toby Booth praised his players for wising up and winning a place in the last 16 of the European Challenge Cup. Full-back Iestyn Hopkins’ two tries helped the Ospreys to a 25-3 win over Perpignan to book a place in the knockout stages of the tournament.

Theo Cabango is hoping his New Year’s wish comes true and he won’t have any more problems with his shoulders. The 21-year-old Cardiff flyer has had bad luck in his first few seasons in senior rugby and been forced to have surgery on both shoulders.

He’s the Dragons highest try-scorer in Europe and only seven off Aled Brew’s regional record of 43, but Ashton Hewitt won’t be able to add to his tally of 36 tries in 125 games this season. Instead, the fleet-footed wing will have to wait for up to nine months before resuming his quest to become the first player at his region to score 50 tries.

The first Six Nations after a World Cup often sees a changing of the guard, with new faces emerging as a fresh four-year cycle begins. This season’s tournament is likely to be another example of that, following the retirement of a number of seasoned campaigners and the rise of a host of talented youngsters who have shone in the BKT URC over the past few months.

Andy Farrell is expected to be named British and Irish Lions head coach for the 2025 tour to Australia on Thursday – in succession to Warren Gatland. A month after agreeing a contract to remain in charge of Ireland until the end of the 2027 World Cup, Farrell is set to be confirmed as Gatland’s successor in the Lions role at a lunchtime press conference in central London.

England prop Joe Marler has been ruled out of Harlequins’ Investec Champions Cup clash against Cardiff as his arm injury continues to be assessed. It comes amid front-row concerns for England head coach Steve Borthwick ahead of the Guinness Six Nations.

Cardiff have admitted they were unable to compete with the deal Tomos Williams has signed to move from the Arms Park to Gloucester. The Wales scrum-half will move over the border at the end of the season, the latest in a long line of departures of Wales’ top talent from the domestic game.

He was the Welshman who played against England 11 times and never lost. That’s worth a pause. Eleven matches against England and no defeats. Alun Wyn Jones won 10 matches against England, but he also lost 13 times against the old enemy.

New WRU President Terry Cobner has led the tributes to JPR Williams, the superstar full back of the Seventies who has died at the age of 74. Cobner, who played alongside JPR in the 1976 and 1978 Grand Slam campaigns, as well as the 1977 Triple Crown season, sys he will be remembered as one of the greatest Welsh players of all-time.

One of rugby’s hottest properties, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, has chosen England over Wales and will link up with the Red Rose squad ahead of the upcoming Six Nations. According to a report in the Daily Mail, Feyi-Waboso has informed Wales head coach Warren Gatland of his decision and will attend an England camp in the coming days.

FORMER Ireland captain Rhys Ruddock is ready to re-ignite his international career – by dramatically switching to Wales. Ruddock has won 27 caps for Ireland, but the last of those was earned almost three years ago against France.

Meet Jack Walsh: The rugby wanderer who is loving life in Wales and the BKT URC. From New South Wales to South Wales, via days in Devon, it’s been some rugby journey for the American-born Jack Walsh.

Aaron Wainwright can put his feet up this weekend – a well deserved break for a player who has just played his 100th match for the Dragons. The Wales back row forward gets a rare weekend off as all four of the Welsh regions have a free pass following a busy festive period that culminated with the Welsh derby games on New Year’s Day.

Match-winner Morgan Morse has been patted on the back by Ospreys coach Toby Booth – and also told to work on his rough edges. The shrewd verdict was delivered after Morse became the talk of Welsh rugby following the 18-year-old’s sensational try in his region’s New Year’s Day victory over Cardiff.

Home is still very much where the heart is when it comes to the regional derbies in the BKT United Rugby Championship. After nine of the 12 games played already this season, only three have ended up in away victories. At the start of last month the Scarlets won 29-23 at the Arms Park, while last weekend saw the Dragons pip Scarlets by a point at Rodney Parade and the Ospreys came from behind to beat Cardiff Rugby.

Wales and England Six Nations option Immanuel Feyi-Waboso will be free to choose the three feathers or the red rose, his club Exeter have insisted. Exeter rugby director Rob Baxter says there will be no pressure from the Chiefs about where Cardiff-born Feyi-Waboso’s potential international career should lie.

Gwalia Lightning secured an impressive 20-5 victory over rivals Brython Thunder in the historic first Welsh derby in the new expanded Celtic Challenge tournament at a rain sodden Rodney Parade in Newport on New Year’s Day. The first game of a unique Welsh derby double-header at the home of Dragons Rugby saw both sides go toe-to-toe in a physical and uncompromising contest in torrential rain to mark an exciting new chapter in women’s rugby in Wales.

Dai Flanagan has told his Dragons players their victory over the Scarlets must become the baseline standard and not a high-point one-off. The Rodney Parade coach – under pressure after his team’s embarrassing capitulation to Cardiff on Boxing Day – praised his team for their 13-12 home win over Dwayne Peel’s men.

Toby Booth praised his “old school” Ospreys players after they beat Cardiff in a match that looked as if it was straight out of the 1980s. The Ospreys coach was full of praise for the character shown by his players as they marked New Year’s Day 2024 with a game-plan that could have come from 40 years ago.