{"id":761785,"date":"2026-02-13T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/761785\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:00:15","slug":"six-nations-2026-coach-steve-tandy-urges-wales-fans-to-turn-out-in-force-for-france-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/761785\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Coach Steve Tandy urges Wales fans to &#8216;turn out in force&#8217; for France game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales head coach Steve Tandy has urged supporters to turn out in force for Sunday&#8217;s Six Nations encounter with France in Cardiff, saying he knows &#8220;how good the stadium is when it&#8217;s sold out&#8221;. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c78x5878dzgo\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than 15,000 tickets were still available on Friday morning<\/a> and Tandy pointed to the atmosphere during the autumn &#8211; particularly against New Zealand &#8211; and said it is up to the players to repay the fans&#8217; faith with a much-improved performance after last weekend&#8217;s thrashing against England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Read more:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx248d72mg2o\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wales recall Hawkins and Cracknell for France visit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales head coach Steve Tandy has urged supporters to turn out in force for Sunday&#8217;s Six Nations encounter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-761785","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\/116063451572207086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761785","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=761785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}