Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast

Wales centre Jonathan Davies reflects on the England defeat and looks ahead to facing France in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We also hear from the Wales Women’s camp a month out from their Six Nations starting and Scarlets and Wales outside half Rhys Patchell on his two years of injury struggles

Wales coach Wayne Pivac explains his selection thinking against England, we also hear from Dan Biggar and Ryan Elias in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. Plus Wales U20s defence coach Craig Everett on his journey to the role, why flanker Tom Cowan chose Wales over England and the special attributes of centre Eddie James.

We start looking forward to the England game in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast, as well as hearing from Wales women and contrasting university rugby with the academies. Wales players Jac Morgan and Nick Tompkins talk about beating Scotland with England next, in the week Women’s Six Nations tickets go on sale we speak to Gwenllian Pyrs, Kayleigh Powell and Sisilia Tuipolotu, as well as a special visit to Cardiff Metropolitan.

Changes in the Wales team to face Scotland and changes at the Principality Stadium for the game, in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We also hear from Wales Under 20s Joe Hawkins and Wales Women’s star Jaz Joyce.

The longest Welsh Rugby Union Podcast we have ever done, there is so much to try and pack in. Wales coach Wayne Pivac explains his selection, wing Louis Rees Zammit says he’s getting even quicker, Wales U20s, the National Exiles programme, developments for Wales Women and changes at the Principality Stadium. Welsh Qualified players based outside Wales are welcome to register with the WRU Exiles programme at www.wru.wales/exiles Various links will then take them to further information.

Looking ahead to the start of the Six Nations in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from rival captains Dan Biggar and Jonny Sexton, along with Wales coach Wayne Pivac. We also speak to Wales U20s coach Byron Hayward and Wales Women’s Hannah Jones.

A Wales Six Nations squad always whets the rugby appetite, hear all the thinking in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. Coach Wayne Pivac explains the reasons behind his selections, WRU group chief executive explains the importance of crowds at the home games. We also talk to two of the professional Wales Women, scrum half Ffion Lewis and centre Lisa Neumann.

An historic and emotional day for Wales Women with 12 players receiving professional contracts – in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from WRU performance director Nigel Walker, head coach Ioan Cunningham and captain Siwan Lillicrap. We also speak to WRU head of sevens Richie Pugh about the men’s team returning to the World Series this month.

Difficult situations lead to interesting interviews in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. Find out why both Cardiff’s Dai Young and Ospreys’ Toby Booth think this is the most difficult period of their lengthy coaching careers. We also speak to forwards James Botham at Cardiff, on his lucky escape from South African quarantine, and Will Griffiths of the Ospreys, on the players helping his rapid rise.

Only one regional derby this week, but plenty of talking points on the Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We speak to Dwayne Peel and Gareth Davies at the Scarlets, Toby Booth and Morgan Morris at the Ospreys.

One match, four human stories in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. The two teams emerging from South African quarantine face off at the Arms Park, we hear from Cardiff rugby’s Dai Young and Josh Turnbull, as well as Dwayne Peel and Johnny McNicholl from the Scarlets.

A chance to hear from inside and outside the Covid quarantine situations which hit the Scarlets and Cardiff Rugby – and see how they have been coping with adversity. We hear from Dai Flanagan and Ryan Elias at the Scarlets, Seb Davies and Theo Cabango at Cardiff. Also former Wales prop Aaron Jarvis talks about his decision to retire and go into coaching in America.

“We are not robots” says Wales and Lions wing Josh Adams, a chance to hear at length about the human side in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We also hear from Ellis Jenkins and Theo Cabango as Cardiff prepare to take on European Champions Toulouse in the oddest of circumstances, plus Bridgend and Newport in the Indigo Group Premiership.

A chance to hear from some of the Indigo Group Welsh Premiership coaches in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. As well as the importance of the Principality Stadium to the Welsh Government and we speak to a Welsh Paralympic gold medalist.

We round up the Autumn Series internationals with Wayne Pivac, Johnny McNicholl and Aaron Wainwright, as well as Wales Women’s coach Ioan Cunningham. We also find out more about the development of wheelchair rugby in Wales and the Indigo Premiership prospects for RGC and Cardiff RFC.

Wales coach Wayne Pivac discusses his options for the Australia match in the Week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. Nick Tompkins describes switching to start the Fiji game minutes before kick off, Wales Women captain Siwan Lillicrap, scrum half Keira Bevan and backs coach Richard Whiffin describe their progress and we also hear about top level wheelchair rugby coming to the Principality Stadium.

We hear from the men’s and women’s Wales camps in this week’s Welsh rugby Union Podcast. Wales coach Wayne Pivac explains his thinking while we also hear from Ellis Jenkins, Kieran Hardy and Bradley Roberts. Wales women’s coach Ioan Cunningham also explains his thinking, while we hear also from Alisha Butchers, Cerys Hale, Caitlin Lewis, Jazz Joyce and Elinor Snowsill.

A momentous and historic week for the Women’s game in Wales – hear all about it in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union podcast. We speak to WRU performance director, Wales Women captain Siwan Lillicrap and coach Ioan Cunningham about the decision to offer professional contracts to the players building up to next year’s World Cup. We also hear from Wales coach Wayne Pivac looking ahead to the South Africa game

We look ahead to Wales against the All Blacks – and back to Wales Women against the Black Ferns – in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from coach Wayne Pivac as well as key forwards Wyn Jones, Tomas Francis and Adam Beard, looking ahead to this weekend’s game against New Zealand. We also hear from coach Ioan Cunningham and captain Siwan Lillicrap after they played a training match against New Zealand Women.

Just how much is the All Blacks game worth to Welsh rugby and a chance to hear from the new Wales Women coaching team. We speak to WRU chief executive Steve Phillips, as well as Wales Women’s head coach Ioan Cunningham and attack coach Richard Whiffin.