{"id":332504,"date":"2026-03-06T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332504\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:11:08","slug":"ireland-v-wales-can-andy-farrells-men-build-on-twickenham-win-against-an-improving-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332504\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Wales: Can Andy Farrell\u2019s men build on Twickenham win against an improving Wales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how the teams line-up as Ulster&#8217;s rise continues<br \/>Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has made five changes to his team to play Wales in Friday night\u2019s sold-out Six Nations clash at the Aviva Stadium (8.10).<\/p>\n<p>For the third game running, Farrell has rung the changes, with uncapped Ulster scrum-half Nathan Doak set to make his Ireland debut off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>A year after Ulster infamously did not have a single player in the Ireland match-day squad to play Wales, the northern province now have seven players included, which is a testament to the job that Richie Murphy is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland \u2013 J Osborne; R Baloucoune, G Ringrose, S McCloskey, J Stockdale; J Crowley, J Gibson-Park; T O\u2019Toole, R Kelleher, T Furlong; J Ryan, T Beirne; J Conan, N Timoney, C Doris (capt). Reps: T Stewart, M Milne, T Clarkson, J McCarthy, J van der Flier, N Doak*, T Farrell, C Frawley.<\/p>\n<p>Wales &#8211; L Rees-Zammit (Bristol), E Mee, E James, J Hawkins (all Scarlets), J Adams (Cardiff), D Edwards (Ospreys), T Williams (Gloucester); R Carre (Saracens), D Lake (Ospreys, capt), T Francis (Provence), D Jenkins (Exeter), B Carter (Dragons), A Mann, J Botham (both Cardiff), A Wainwright (Dragons).<br \/>Reps: R Elias (Scarlets), N Smith (Leicester), A Griffin (Bath), A Beard (Montpellier), O Cracknell (Leicester), K Hardy (Ospreys), J Evans (Harlequins), L Hennessey (Bath).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how the teams line-up as Ulster&#8217;s rise continuesIreland head coach Andy Farrell has made five changes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,16490,43],"class_list":["post-332504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-live-blogs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}