Cameron Winnett, who was selected at full-back, will receive his first senior international cap for Wales. Josh Adams and Rio Dyer are chosen on the wings. Rugby fans worldwide are called to book Six Nations 2024 tickets from our online platform ticketing. co. Rugby fans can book Wales Vs Scotland Tickets on our website at exclusively discounted prices.

Dafydd Jenkins, who will be 21 on Saturday, will be the second-youngest captain of Wales, behind Sir Gareth Edwards. Jenkins is partnered by Adam Beard in the second row.

WALES

Let’s have the overview of the Wales Six Nations Squad ahead of the competition:

Coach: Gats for his 17th campaign in the Six Nations!

Captain: Dafydd Jenkins, a 21-year-old lock, assumes the armband in place of Jac Morgan. After Gareth Edwards, the second-youngest captain of Wales. Mawr, llongyfarchiadau!

Welcome to competition

The breakaway trio of Alex Mann, Mackenzie Martin, and Evan Lloyd is one of five uncapped players on Gatland’s roster. Additionally named are Bath prop Archie Griffin and Cardiff full-back Cameron Winnett. Eleven more members of the squad are below the threshold of ten caps. Rugby fans can book Wales Six Nations Tickets on our website at exclusively discounted prices.

Missing the action

How comfortable are you in your seat? Callum Sheedy, Chris Tshiunza, Taulupe Faletau, Dewi Lake, and Jac Morgan are all hurt. Leigh Halfpenny, AWJ, Dan Bigger, and Justin Tipuric have all retired. Moving abroad were Thomas Francis, Liam Williams, and Gareth Anscombe (who later returned from Japan and is reportedly training with Wales even though he doesn’t have a contract or club).

Louis Rees-Zamit, meantime, is racing across the pond after the dream, the wealth, the limelight—delete as appropriate. Joe Hawkins, the center, has disqualified himself because he plays for Exeter. And lastly, the scoundrel Immanuel Weyi-Waboso, a winger from Cardiff, chose to play for a rising England team rather than a dysfunctional Welsh one!

Reasons to be cheerful

Warren Gatland declared, “We can definitely win this tournament,” though it’s possible that he was attempting to convince himself just as much as anybody else. As an honorary member of a Welsh WhatsApp group that is already preparing for the Wooden Spoon, this team is at least free from unwarranted expectations.

Wales also have a very useful combination in Jenkins and Will Rowlands of Racing, and if given the chance, young players like Mackenzie Martin and Kieron Williams might still surprise us. Many people believe that Ryan Elias is a better hooker than Dewi Lake. Lastly, the Welsh players find that their lackluster record against the Scots in Cardiff makes it irrelevant that Scotland is playing first at home.

Leave out

The most recent outcomes. Despite finishing fifth in three of the previous four Championship seasons, Wales performed well to defeat Fiji at the RWC. Considering the scratch team Gatland has at his disposal, it will be his best performance to lead them higher than that.

Not only that, but the Ospreys are the only Welsh region in the top half of the URC, and the once-mighty Scarlets, along with Perpignan, were among the few teams to end the European tournament pool stages with zero points.

Making his mark

Warren Gatland seems to be the person who can bring some order to this disorganized group of people, but there is still a long way to go. He will get paid this season and beyond, but Jenkins will have to learn how to be a captain.

Recent record: 5th in the year 2020, 1st, 5th and 5th.

Best estimate?

With several veteran players out and the younger players still getting used to the system, Wales are in a bit of a mess. Back when Dan Parks was still playing, maybe fourteen years ago, I made a wild guess that the 10th-choice fly-half for Wales would start for Scotland. Their number one pick, 10 now, would be lucky to be on the substitute roster for either of Scotland’s professional clubs.

Although Sam Costelow might surprise us, not much about his past performance points to him being a future Test fly-half. To escape the “Spoon,” I believe Wales will need to defeat Italy in the championship game.

SCOTLAND

Coach: Gregor Townsend now in his eighth season

Captains: Finn Russell and Rory Darge, who are having trouble making the first game, are the captains.

Greetings from the competition

Remarkably, three of the four new players are not from Scotland (only 18 of the squad’s 39 players are from Scottish rugby, for example). Hence, Elliot Millar-Mills of Saints and Alex Hepburn, a former England prop for Exeter, are present to support the Scottish scrum. Both Sale’s Arron Reed and Edinburgh’s highly promising Harry Patterson have speed to spare! (Congrats!)

Missing in action

Jamie Richie’s current situation doesn’t seem good, and he must be wondering what the hell has changed in the four months after RWC ’23. Unless Townsend has realized, a little too late, that his number six is actually a seven? Contrary to popular belief, no Scot has retired since the World Cup, though you can bet that a few would have rather to.

Darcy Graham is hurt and Grant Gilchrist is suspended for Cardiff, while the three Lions players Hamish Watson, Chris Harris, and Rory Sutherland were all labeled “surplus stock.”

There’s cause for celebration

Scotland is usually competitive against most teams. For those of you who are younger readers, this was not always the case. With the little-n-large wing combination providing a contrasting but formidable danger in the wide channels, they have a backline that can test even the most formidable defenders.

Scotland is exciting to watch when they have the wind in their sails, and although Glasgow’s Max Williamson isn’t in the national team right now, he looks the part if great Richie ever retires. Don’t bring up Ireland. If Townsend never had to play against the Irish again, it would come too soon, with a record of played 11, lost 10, and won 1. They were a part of Scotland’s defeat in both the 2019 and 23 World Cups.

The day I lost a fiver. Not because I expected Scotland to prevail, but rather because I believed that, facing overwhelming odds, they would challenge Ireland and at the very least, make a show of it. I was in error. By halftime, it was over. On the last weekend of the competition, the two teams square off in Dublin, and unless Scotland gives its forward pack an equivalent dose of muscle and mischief, they will lose again.

Leaving his mark

A substantial lummock to fill the shirt with the number six and provide much-needed balance and ballast to the rear row. Please. Luke Crosbie would be my pick, but Townsend can’t hope to compete with the power packs out there if they have two or even three openside flankers in the back row.

Recent records: 4th in 2020, 4th, 4th and 3rd!

Our best estimate

A lot will depend on the pivotal first weekend when Scotland must not only win in Cardiff for the first time in twenty-two years but also do it with much remaining. During this rebuilding phase, this Wales team would be a little bit ordinary even at full strength, but they are also missing numerous important players, including their twin RWC captains.

Scotland is well-positioned to face the challenge of France and England at home after their convincing victory in Wales. If we manage a narrow victory or, god forbid, a defeat in Cardiff, we might have to look to Rome for some form of consolation in the fourth round.

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