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Gatland tweaks Wales' squad, calling up a fifth uncapped player

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Wales boss Warren Gatland (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

Wales coach Warren Gatland has called up uncapped Scarlets centre Eddie James to his latest squad.

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The Welsh Rugby Union has announced the 21-year-old will link up with what is now a 37-player group preparing for summer fixtures against South Africa and Australia.

James is rewarded for a strong 2023/24 campaign with Scarlets and joins fellow uncapped players Jacob Beetham, Ellis Bevan, Keelan Giles and Josh Hathaway in the squad.

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Wales face the Springboks at Twickenham on June 22 before heading to Australia for two Tests against the Wallabies and an additional fixture against the Queensland Reds.

Gatland is intending to trim the squad to 34 after the South Africa encounter.

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B.J. Spratt 6 minutes ago
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I would like to thank England for providing the All Blacks with a couple of warm up games before we play “The World Champions” South Africa. Mind you South Africa’s warm up games will be a bit harder.

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B.J. Spratt 12 minutes ago
'It's like an argument with your wife': Ex-Boks skipper previews Irish 'war'

If FRANCE can beat the Poms 56 -10 at their “Hallowed home ground in March 2023, Twickenham, after trying for 16 years, I am sure the All Blacks can take them apart in Dunedin with a similar score and I am sure the Boks will “rip Ireland apart” and once again Northern Hemisphere Rugby will be “humiliated” for what it is; A bunch of Public School Twats who sit around drinking whiskey at their Private Clubs, still patting each other on the back for the 1971 Lions Tour of New Zealand. Mind you they were the “Best Test team I have ever seen” Let face it check the record, you just can’t match “The Colonials when it comes to Rugby, Rugby League and Cricket”

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Turlough 1 hours ago
Former Bok captain Victor Matfield launches personal tirade at Sam Warburton

I see in Erasmus’s interview he says there was no messing on the SA side and all the niggle was with the Irish media. A bad liar, but it shows his attempt to inflame SA will achieve nothing except perhaps extracting the best possible performance out of Ireland.

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Turlough 1 hours ago
'It's like an argument with your wife': Ex-Boks skipper previews Irish 'war'

“We definitely can’t just rock up and expect to win”. Handre Pollard. Wow, big of Handre! Great for Handre if SA are thinking this way!

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Dawid 3 hours ago
Former Bok captain Victor Matfield launches personal tirade at Sam Warburton

This is sensationalist paraphrasing from an official world rugby owned news site. You should be ashamed. The debate between Swys and Victor was pure quality ranging from picking players on form or for future and if its more important to win this game as Ireland is seen as the best team in the world by some pundits. And all you can take out of it is painting two great former players in a petty poor light. I hope Irish and Welsh fans see my comment as it was not as this “article” says it was.

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Turlough 4 hours ago
Massive Andy Farrell decision asks three Ireland stars to put their legacies on the line

Not sure what Ryan Baird has to do to get the start for Ireland.

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Nikola 4 hours ago
Toulouse player ratings vs Bordeaux | 2023/24 Top 14 final

After receiving his MOTM award, Dupont said that he made quite a few mistakes. We all saw that he did. But he deserves his 9/10 rating. No idea how Jack Willis is rated with just 8/10 though and I think giving Flament a 6/10 is very harsh, he played as good a game as most of his teammates.

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Turlough 5 hours ago
Former Bok captain Victor Matfield launches personal tirade at Sam Warburton

Honestly, I am developing quite a dislike from playing the two SH ‘Giants’ when all you get is this level of toxic Donald Trump type commentary from their so called ‘Greats’. Ireland and Irish supporters just need to play these guys, hopefully beat them and then not have to interact until necessary again. Etsebeth, DeAllende, Kolbe and now Matfield at this childish sh1t. Do SA supporters actually enjoy this nonsense? Again, Rassie won’t be able to put a picture of Sam Warburton on the dressing room wall for motivation. His unpleasant ploy of trying to paint Ireland as arrogant has failed. Ireland are deathly quiet so you can only imagine it is quietly motivating them. Two weeks and then good riddance.

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Derek Murray 6 hours ago
The problem areas Joe Schmidt must address for 'desperate' Wallabies

Nicely summarised, Brett. We should win but there are so many variables and so few guys who are experienced, strong test players in our 23, it’s highly likely we won’t. I’ve had a lazy £50 each on Wales and England at 5.60 as an emotional hedge and because I think those odds are ludicrous.

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Tom 6 hours ago
'New Zealand are smart most of the time but they weren’t smart that day'

White orcs on steroids is really funny lol.

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Barry 6 hours ago
Are the All Blacks playing the retention game and losing?

Rugby is their profession. Why wouldn’t they follow the money and better opportunities. Plenty do it in every other profession that pays you a salary. The ABs have been draining the Polynesian pool of talent for decades. It’s now just moving in cycles.

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Francisco 7 hours ago
The problem areas Joe Schmidt must address for 'desperate' Wallabies

Hi Brett, you've given a very clear reading of AUS's on-court behaviour. During RWC2023, their final stint before the international tournament, they conceded penalties above their group average (48 vs 47) and in line with the RWC2023 average as a whole (48). I think the real problem with AUS' indiscipline was due to the instance in which penalties were conceded and the ease with which opponents were able to convert those concessions into points. Increasing the speed of the game, as Eddie Jones intended, required mental support to drive the game accurately and effectively. And that "mental composure" proved difficult to instil in a young team.

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Rolando 7 hours ago
Are the All Blacks playing the retention game and losing?

Not sure I get the argument here. There’s many, many players that NZ has “poached” from elsewhere when they were already really good at rugby, offering scholarships to lure them into moving to NZ, qualify for them, and tie them, particularly from the Pacific Islands. Off the top of my head: Fekitoa, Naholo, Reece, Narawa, Sowakula, Sivivatu, Fakatava…

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Bull Shark 8 hours ago
Massive Andy Farrell decision asks three Ireland stars to put their legacies on the line

With some of the players having a peak at long-term Bok ambitions in the back three (Roos, Phepsi, Hanekom, Louw etc etc) for the boks, the Boks might not have the best three in the world - but they certainly have the most consistently excellent back three who can slot in seamlessly. Exciting stuff.

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Michele 8 hours ago
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Love, love, love Dan Cole. I will be so sad when he retires…I guess I should join that fan club! Thanks for the article.

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Bull Shark 8 hours ago
Ireland and Springboks agree to trial new TMO protocol in Pretoria

How many other tier one teams have this sort of capability (a former referee) and focus on training and development around the laws?

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Neil 8 hours ago
Are the All Blacks playing the retention game and losing?

Doesn’t bode well for the future. Pretty shocked to read the NZR financial losses. I thought selling a percentage of equity was supposed to be a AB sovereign fund. By the looks of it, they’re burning through it pretty quick.

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JD Kiwi 8 hours ago
The problem areas Joe Schmidt must address for 'desperate' Wallabies

Top article again Brett. They should beat Wales and Georgia but 38% overall might be tough to beat with this squad.

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Flankly 9 hours ago
The problem areas Joe Schmidt must address for 'desperate' Wallabies

We saw what Wales have, against a rusty Bok team that was missing many first choice players. We have not seen what Australia have, but it’s easy to make educated guesses. Schmidt is a smart and meticulous planner with a focus on precision execution. His team do not have tons of experience, nor have they had the opportunity to groove their systems and game plan. But Australia always has athletic players, with a very competitive mindset. We should expect Australia to focus on doing the basics better than Wales, and layering on a keep-control attacking strategy that targets the Wales weaknesses. That probably translates into a “keep alive” approach, with a multi-phase running attack that creates mismatches, line-breaks and space out wide. If Wales bring what they brought at Twickenham then we should expect Australia to win convincingly.

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JD Kiwi 9 hours ago
Are the All Blacks playing the retention game and losing?

Kiwi players move North because there's more money and/or it's easier to win test caps. It doesn't happen much the other way because we don't have more money and it isn't easier to get into the All Blacks. Not for the reasons stated in the article.

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