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Six Nations boost as Wales hold on to back row star

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Aaron Wainwright of Wales celebrates victory with members of the crowd at full-time following the Rugby World Cup France 2023 match between Wales and Australia at Parc Olympique on September 24, 2023 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Aaron Wainwright has handed Welsh rugby a major pre-Six Nations boost by agreeing a new contract with the Dragons.

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The Wales back-row forward, who looks set to line up at number eight in next weekโ€™s Six Nations clash against Scotland, has agreed what the Dragons described as โ€œa multi-yearโ€ deal.

The 26-year-old would undoubtedly have courted considerable interest elsewhere, given his Test experience of 43 caps and outstanding displays during the Rugby World Cup in France.

โ€œLots of positive conversations have gone on between Dai (Dragons head coach Dai Flanagan), myself and the club,โ€ Wainwright said.

โ€œI am looking forward to the next few years. I love the Dragons, I am a home boy.

โ€œI love turning up to Rodney Parade, seeing fans out on the terraces, and thatโ€™s what I want to keep doing, turning up on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday and playing well, trying to make them happy.

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โ€œI am happy to have re-signed and I am excited to see what the next few years have to hold.โ€

Wainwright made his Wales debut in 2018 and he has developed into a player whose consistency of performance is an invaluable commodity for head coach Warren Gatland.

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Only six players โ€“ and just two forwards โ€“ have more caps than him in Walesโ€™ 34-strong Six Nations squad, and he is comfortably the senior back-row figure.

With Taulupe Faletau sidelined for the whole Six Nations, along with flanker and co-captain Jac Morgan, through injury, Wainwright will head up Gatlandโ€™s back-row resources.

A move from blindside flanker can be expected, unless Gatland hands uncapped Cardiff number eight Mackenzie Martin an opportunity and leaves Wainwright in the number six shirt.

โ€œIt is a fairly young group at the moment. It is definitely exciting, and it is about how we build on that,โ€ Wainwright added.

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โ€œWhen I came in for my first campaign, some of the back rows in the squad โ€“ Tips (Justin Tipuric), Lyds (Dan Lydiate), Taulupe (Faletau) โ€“ itโ€™s trying to be a figure to them like those boys were to me. I am just trying to be the best role model for them.

โ€œI am not always the loudest of talkers. I hope to do it through my actions.

โ€œWe have been pushing each other in training, and everyone has fitted in well really quickly. Weโ€™ve only had three days of training, but information is being taken on really quickly.โ€

Scotland have not beaten Wales in Cardiff since 2002 โ€“ current head coach Gregor Townsend was their fly-half that day โ€“ losing 11 successive Tests in the Welsh capital.

But they have been strongly backed to end that sequence, particularly given Walesโ€™ inexperience and the absence of players like Faletau, Morgan, Louis Rees-Zammit, Liam Williams and Dan Biggar.

The squadโ€™s cap total is 735, but 438 of those appearances have been made by just seven players โ€“ Wainwright, Josh Adams, George North, Gareth Davies, Tomos Williams, Elliot Dee and Adam Beard.

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