Seven Dragons have been named in the Wales U20s extended training squad ahead of the upcoming Six Nations campaign.<\/p>\n
Evan Minto, who featured in last summer\u2019s U20s World Cup, returns to the squad alongside call-ups for George Tuckley, James Talamai, Nathan Davies, Cerrig Smith, Carter Pritchard and Rhys Cole.<\/p>\n
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Bath\u2019s Jack Woods, son of former Cross Keys RFC and Ebbw Vale RFC coach Greg Woods, is also included.<\/p>\n
The squad of 45, selected by Wales U20s head coach Richard Whiffin, is preparing for a warm-up match against Cardiff RFC at the Cardiff Arms Park on Friday, January 16.<\/p>\n
Whiffin said: “It\u2019s a great opportunity for us to get time in with the boys in preparation before we begin the Six Nations.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s an opportunity for us to connect with the players \u2013 it\u2019s an opportunity for those guys to put their hands up before we whittle the squad down to 36\/37 for the Six Nations.”<\/p>\n
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The final Six Nations squad will be announced the following week.<\/p>\n
Whiffin said that the warm-up fixture will be valuable preparation.<\/p>\n
Read more<\/strong><\/p>\n Former hall set to be transformed into gymnastics and soft play centre<\/a> He said: “We\u2019re incredibly grateful Cardiff have taken the fixture with us \u2013 it\u2019s a good time, two or three weeks out from the first game against England at Northampton to fine tune the things we\u2019ve been doing in training.”<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Other names in the squad include Ospreys\u2019 Dylan James and Scarlets\u2019 Jac Pritchard, Cardiff\u2019s Sion Davies and Cardiff Rugby\u2019s Tom Bowen, and Scarlets\u2019 Hudson Nevin and Keanu Evans.<\/p>\n The Dragons\u2019 young prospects will be hoping to secure their places in the final squad and represent Wales in the U20s Six Nations Championship, starting with the clash against England in Northampton.<\/p>\n The warm-up match against Cardiff RFC will kick off at 5.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven Dragons have been named in the Wales U20s extended training squad ahead of the upcoming Six Nations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,99453,207072,207075,207073,207074,4884,99451,207076,207071,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-683683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cardiff-arms-park","10":"tag-cardiff-rfc","11":"tag-cerrig-smith","12":"tag-cross-keys-rfc","13":"tag-george-tuckley","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-jack-woods","16":"tag-james-talamai","17":"tag-nathan-davies","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115863159131977928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683683","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=683683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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