{"id":10217,"date":"2026-03-10T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:43:42","slug":"six-nations-2026-dan-lydiate-eyes-progress-after-wales-improve-in-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10217","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Dan Lydiate eyes progress after Wales improve in defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Assistant coach Dan Lydiate has praised Wales&#8217; defensive improvement but says there is still progress to be made after conceding 23 tries in four matches in this year&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lydiate is helping with Wales&#8217; defence during the campaign and highlighted the effort shown in the 27-17 defeat by Ireland, but he says the next step is to win the ball back sooner rather than making huge numbers of tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Italy visiting Principality Stadium on Saturday, Lydiate says Wales want to use their energy in attack and get the Cardiff venue rocking again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Read more:<\/b> &#8216;Banged up&#8217; Wainwright set to face Italy for Wales<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant coach Dan Lydiate has praised Wales&#8217; defensive improvement but says there is still progress to be made after conceding 23 tries in four matches in this year&#8217;s Six Nations. Lydiate is helping with Wales&#8217; defence during the campaign and highlighted the effort shown in the 27-17 defeat by Ireland, but he says the next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}