The Wales Rugby Union has fulfilled its promise to provide retainer contracts to complement the twelve full-time contracts awarded earlier this month. The nine players are: Abbie Fleming (Exeter Chiefs), Bethan Lewis (Gloucester-Hartpury), Caitlin Lewis (Exeter Chiefs), Cerys Hale (Gloucester-Hartpury), Georgia Evans (Saracens), Gwen Crabb (Gloucester-Hartpury), Kat Evans (Saracens), Kerin Lake (Gloucester-Hartpury) and Niamh Terry
The Welsh Rugby Union has announced the award of twelve contracts for its women’s squad. They are: Alisha Butchers, Carys Phillips, Donna Rose, Elinor Snowsill, Ffion Lewis, Gwenillian Pyrs, Hannah Jones, Jasmine Joyce, Keira Bevan, Lisa Neumann, Natalia John and Siwan Lillicrap. Since the original plan was to offer only ten, this generosity may show
Team Bath Superleague shooter Betsy Creak and U21 NPL player Nia Evans have been selected in the Wales Netball squad for this weekend’s Test Series against Gibraltar, Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland. The fixtures, taking place at Ebbw Vale Sports Centre from 14-16 January, are the final opportunity for Wales to play
Welsh women rugby players are to receive full professional contracts, but only up to ten of them. Up to fifteen more will be offered retainers. They come into effect at the start of next year. Precise details are yet to be provided, but this amounts to an enormous step forward for a squad that has
Ioan Cunningham has announced 38 names of players to form the Welsh squad for three autumn internationals. After the long lay-off he wants to expose as many players as possible to the training methods and expectations of the new management team. The broader the base, the more the competition for places, which can only benefit
The Black Ferns began preparations at London Irish’s training ground in Shepperton with two adjusted games against England Under 20s and Wales. It was kind of New Zealand and Welsh information services to let us know about England’s participation. Two different Ferns teams won the games 83-3 and 53-7 respectively. This was a cunning plan
The WRU has announced that the three men brought in as interim coaches for Wales Women will stay in post through to the World Cup. They are Ioan Cunningham, Geraint Lewis and Richard Whiffin, assisted by Sophie Spence, the intern. This is a sensible move to ensure stability and a degree of certainty for the
In his annual report the chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Rob Butcher, has addressed the problem of women’s rugby in the Principality. It amounts to an admission of guilt. He resorts to the use of the future tense to an alarming degree, rather like a government promising gold at the end of the rainbow:
News breaks that Rachel Taylor, once briefly assistant coach to Wales women, has been appointed as Performance Coach at Sale Sharks. There she will assist Katy Daley-Mclean in continuing Sharks’ advance, begun last year. This is merely the latest item of unwelcome news for the Principality. It’s impossible to find any findings of the enquiry
Back last April I wrote: ‘WRU’s idea of placing its best players in an optimal position is to advise them to cross the Severn Bridge and join an Allianz Premier 15s club. Back at home the structures at club and regional level are inadequate.’ The situation in Wales now becomes more dire. Ex-international Gemma Hallett
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