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Four uncapped players receive Wales call to face the Barbarians

Wales captain Dewi Lake before the Guinness 6 Nations Rugby Championship match between Ireland and Wales at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. (Photo By Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)
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Four players are in line to make their Wales debuts after Steve Tandy named his side to face the Barbarians at Twickenham’s Allianz Stadium on Saturday.

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Cardiff loosehead Rhys Barratt, Ospreys tighthead Ben Warren, Dragons lock Ryan Woodman and Dragons back-row Harrison Keddie have all been included among the replacements for the uncapped fixture.

The quartet headline a Wales squad who also welcome back second-row Teddy Williams following injury, while Dewi Lake captains a side packed with established internationals as preparations begin for the Nations Championship.

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Wales will face a star-studded Barbarians outfit led by double World Cup-winning Springbok Faf de Klerk and featuring fellow South African Vincent Koch, along with internationals from 11 different nations, including Wales legend George North on the bench in his final match of professional rugby.

Tandy’s men will view the fixture as preparation for their Nations Championship opener against Fiji, with fixtures against Argentina and South Africa to follow.

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Barbarians
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27 Jun 26
Wales
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“We’ve had a good block of training building towards this game and are excited to get our summer underway on Saturday,” Tandy said.

“I’m delighted for Rhys, Ben, Ryan and Harrison, who are all in-line to make their first senior appearance for Wales.

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“The Barbarians will present a good challenge for us. They have lots of skilful players and I’m sure it’ll be a high pace game with lots of offloads. That in turn will be a great preparation for us as we head into the Nations Championship and playing Fiji the week after.

“The more games we play the more consistent we can be. We’re looking to pick up where we left off in the Six Nations and continue to build and improve as a group.”

Wales XV
15 Blair Murray, 14 Tom Rogers, 13 Eddie James, 12 Joe Hawkins, 11 Ellis Mee, 10 Dan Edwards, 9 Kieran Hardy, 1 Gareth Thomas, 2 Dewi Lake (c), 3 Dillon Lewis, 4 Ben Carter, 5 Teddy Williams, 6 Taine Plumtree, 7 Jac Morgan, 8 Aaron Wainwright
Replacements: 16 Ryan Elias, 17 Rhys Barratt, 18 Ben Warren, 19 Ryan Woodman, 20 Harrison Keddie, 21 Reuben Morgan-Williams, 22 Sam Costelow, 23 Mason Grady

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EvilMockingJay 2 hours ago
Antoine Dupont missing for now as Galthie names 33-man France squad

Oh but we want that Cup too ! But SA and NZ don't want to play fair with us xD France is a strong team but not enough to win a final, a semi or a quarter at 16 against 15 xD

Like in 2023, there was 27 (!!!) “mistakes” from BOK against us. Fallen for 1 point. Can't say we would have won against England (who were robbed too, and fallen for 1 point too) and NZ after but I personally believe so. England was pretty weak, getting beated again and again by France and we humilated the Blacks during the opening match. Again 2011 and also 1995… it’s normal not to win every time, after all we are not the only team that play to win. But being robbed every time you have a real chance (or just you were winning no question ask without a ref who suddently stop following the rules of rugby) is harsh. There is voices in France that are starting to say “screw this corrupt World Rugby and screw this RWC, let’s just play our Top14, after all we will never win a World Cup because it is rigged to let a SH team win”. And when you see how it goes (terrible ref being promoted to a RWC final, change in the rules when we are specialists about it, that stupid 20’ red card that encourage brutality from players and partiality from ref and always for or against the same team, forward pass not seen when it’s the other team doing them, same with offsides…) what can you say to these people ? I keep the faith one day we will get that WC, but after 2023, at home, it’s hard to say to these people “no you are wrong”. Like France (one country among a lot of other countries) were robbed 3 times. That’s a lot for ONE country and one competition taking place only every 4 years. And we ain't the only ones robbed. Always by the same teams : RSA or NZ.



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