Ex-All Blacks midfielder Sonny Bill Williams had waded into the debate over the threatened players’ strike ahead of Wales hosting England in the Guinness Six Nations on February 25.
Cardiff inflicted a first defeat of the United Rugby Championship season on defending champions the Stormers with a thrilling 30-24 win in Wales.
Glasgow bounced back from their opening-round defeat at Benetton by racking up eight tries in a 52-24 bonus-point victory over Cardiff at Scotstoun.
Cardiff kicked off their new URC campaign with a first victory over Munster in four years, winning 20-13 at the Arms Park despite an injury to new signing Liam Williams.
Adam Beard wants Wales to be history-makers on their tour of South Africa. The odds are stacked against last year’s Guinness Six Nations champions across a three-Test series that begins on Saturday.
Wales boss Wayne Pivac has named two uncapped players, Cardiff’’s James Ratti and Leicester’s Tommy Reffell, in his 33-man squad for the three-Test series in South Africa this July, the first visit by the Welsh to the home of the Soringboks since
