{"id":9639,"date":"2026-03-03T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:32:51","slug":"six-nations-2026-wales-set-to-recall-ellis-mee-to-face-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9639","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Wales set to recall Ellis Mee to face Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tandy, who names his side on Wednesday morning, will ask his players to back up their encouraging performance against the Scots as they bid to cause an upset and end a 14-game losing run in the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mee started against England and France in the first two rounds but missed out against the Scots, when Hamer-Webb made his Test debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Leicester wing showed flashes but was also centre stage for the try by Darcy Graham that was created by Finn Russell&#8217;s sharp thinking from a quick restart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scotland and Lions fly-half exploited the space left by former Cardiff back Hamer-Webb after he had chased Jarrod Evans&#8217; successful penalty kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blair Murray came on for Hamer-Webb when he suffered an early nose injury and then was a permanent replacement for the final quarter but it is Mee, who is strong in the aerial game, who is poised to get the nod for Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Botham came on in the first half of the game against Scotland and was a strong performer, although he was also caught out by Russell&#8217;s restart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The combative flanker will join forces with Cardiff team-mate Alex Mann, with number eight Wainwright an injury concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards, who had started seven matches before being dropped against Scotland, will pull the strings after Costelow&#8217;s bright display was ended by an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harlequins&#8217; Evans has been used off the bench five times by Tandy and has not started a Test match since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales have not beaten Ireland away in the Six Nations since 2012 or achieved a victory in Dublin since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Irish suffered an opening round defeat by France in Paris but have since beaten Italy and England to keep alive their title hopes, while they can also win the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tandy, who names his side on Wednesday morning, will ask his players to back up their encouraging performance against the Scots as they bid to cause an upset and end a 14-game losing run in the Six Nations. Mee started against England and France in the first two rounds but missed out against the Scots,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9639","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\/9639","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=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}