{"id":13080,"date":"2026-04-15T19:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:19:28","slug":"womens-six-nations-wales-face-uphill-task-after-opening-round-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13080","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Six Nations: Wales face uphill task after opening round defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynn admitted to having selection headaches for Scotland, and after the weekend he has been given even more to think about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Wales&#8217; kicking game so ineffective and France&#8217;s backline so dangerous, Lynn may consider moving Kayleigh Powell to 10, a player who likes to keep ball in hand, and starting Seren Lockwood ahead of Keira Bevan at scrum-half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Powell showed in the World Cup game against Fiji she is more than capable of operating at fly-half, while Lockwood made her case for selection off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And while France have been a super power in women&#8217;s rugby, there may not be a better time to play them, as they like &#8211; many other teams at the start of a new World Cup cycle &#8211; are going through a rebuild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They only scored one try in the first half against Italy, but ran in five after the break, looking more like the free-flowing side of old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game will be played at Cardiff Arms Park after a relatively poor showing next door at Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday&#8217;s gate was 10,569, a drop in the ocean compared to the 77,120 at Allianz Stadium for England&#8217;s opener against Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Lynn and the players are hopeful they can get a good following as they go in search of a first Six Nations win in over two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a tough ask, but defeat could see Wales staring down the barrel of a third consecutive Wooden Spoon heading into the final game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fortunately for Lynn and his squad, there is a lot of rugby to be played until then. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynn admitted to having selection headaches for Scotland, and after the weekend he has been given even more to think about. With Wales&#8217; kicking game so ineffective and France&#8217;s backline so dangerous, Lynn may consider moving Kayleigh Powell to 10, a player who likes to keep ball in hand, and starting Seren Lockwood ahead of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13080","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\/13080","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=13080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}