Star winger's exit to NFL and a bloated injury list means Wales need to manage expectations.
The Dragons recorded their first United Rugby Championship home win for more than a year after seeing off 14-man Ospreys 20-5 at Rodney Parade.
The All Blacks are in the Rugby World Cup final again. They will tussle with South Africa who have also won three finals and lost eight games in tournament history.
Caolin Blade’s 22-minute first-half hat-trick catapulted Connacht to an opening 34-26 bonus-point win over the Ospreys in the BKT United Rugby Championship at the Sportsground.
Ospreys kept alive their hopes of winning the Welsh Shield with a 37-18 bonus-point win over ill-disciplined Dragons.
We have assembled U23 squads for all 14 of the Guinness PRO14 sides to see which of the teams has the brightest future moving forward.
Making ends meet in Welsh regional rugby is a complicated task and Scarlets have reported that the level of debt recorded in their latest annual report was up on the previous year