{"id":263348,"date":"2025-07-14T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263348\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T04:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:44:15","slug":"welsh-rugby-victory-in-japan-must-signal-start-of-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263348\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh rugby: Victory in Japan must signal start of new era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before you look forward, sometimes you have to reflect. Even if it is painful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales played 10 internationals this season with Warren Gatland and Sherratt in charge for five games each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They conceded 362 points and scored 177 in those games which included three autumn international defeats and another Six Nations wooden spoon, completed with a record 68-14 home defeat by England in Cardiff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were nine successive losses before that final victory in Kobe which at least ensured Wales did not go a full campaign without a win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">2024 Autumn Nations series<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunday, 10 November, Wales 19-24 Fiji, Cardiff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunday, 17 November, Wales 20-52 Australia, Cardiff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 23 November, Wales 12-45 South Africa, Cardiff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">2025 Six Nations<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friday, 31 January, France 43-0 Wales, Paris<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 8 February, Italy 22-15 Wales, Rome<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 22 February, Wales 18-27 Ireland, Cardiff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 8 March, Scotland 35-29 Wales, Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 15 March, Wales 14-68 England, Cardiff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Summer tour<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 5 July, Japan 24-19 Wales, Kitakyushu<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 12 July, Japan 22-31 Wales, Kobe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before you look forward, sometimes you have to reflect. Even if it is painful. Wales played 10 internationals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-263348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114849766654952232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}