{"id":10865,"date":"2026-03-19T00:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10865"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:26:22","slug":"womens-six-nations-2026-wales-lose-alex-callender-and-nel-metcalfe-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10865","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Six Nations 2026: Wales lose Alex Callender and Nel Metcalfe to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Callender was co-captain for last year&#8217;s two-Test series against Australia \u2013 leading the side to a historic first win Down Under \u2013 and the World Cup in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old overcame an ankle injury to feature in the tournament but then needed surgery after Wales&#8217; early exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She returned for Harlequins at the end of January and it is believed to be a fresh injury and not a relapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams, who made her Test debut against Ireland in 2023, shared the captaincy duties and has been chosen as the leader for the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynn said: &#8220;Kate Williams has the respect of the whole squad, and her leadership skills means she will be Wales captain for this Six Nations campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales lost all five games of last year&#8217;s championship, condemning them to a second Wooden Spoon on the bounce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callender was co-captain for last year&#8217;s two-Test series against Australia \u2013 leading the side to a historic first win Down Under \u2013 and the World Cup in England. The 25-year-old overcame an ankle injury to feature in the tournament but then needed surgery after Wales&#8217; early exit. She returned for Harlequins at the end of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10865","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\/10865","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=10865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}