Richard Whiffin has urged supporters to turn Cardiff Arms Park into a cauldron on Saturday night and back his Wales U20 team to a shock victory.

Wales coach Steve Tandy plans to bring in a new defence coach to plug his leaky defence – but not until the summer.

Steve Tandy has pointed to preparation and form as the key reasons behind the recall of Olly Cracknell for Wales.

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.

Wales fans are being urged to see the funny side of their team’s current Six Nations woes, with bookmaker DragonBet offering “Les Miserable” specials ahead of Sunday’s clash against France.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.