{"id":342446,"date":"2026-03-12T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342446\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:31:09","slug":"six-nations-2026-wales-head-coach-steve-tandy-names-unchanged-xv-for-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342446\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Wales head coach Steve Tandy names unchanged XV for Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wales seek elusive win to reward growthpublished at 11:06 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:06 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Six Nations 2026<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steve Tandy Head Coach of Wales Men's Rugby Team attends a press conference\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3df8a534-6f88-4b93-8464-413495a833f4.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"917\" height=\"516\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So that&#8217;s your lot from Wales head coach Steve Tandy who has named an unchanged team for the first time in his reign to face Italy in Cardiff on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has kept faith in the players who shook title contenders Ireland in Dublin last week and believes that is a strong sign of &#8220;cohesion and consistency&#8221; in his squad&#8217;s performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Wales will unleash their new try-scoring machine Rhys Carre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it is still three years &#8211; yes, really! &#8211; since Wales last won in the Six Nations and that was against Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, this is a VERY different Azzurri they face having already dispatched Scotland and England either side of narrowly losing to Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italy are aiming to win three games in a Six Nations campaign for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales are holding onto their slimmest of slim hopes of avoiding the Wooden Spoon for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So join us for what looks set to be a thrilling super Saturday when everything will be decided in this year&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales seek elusive win to reward growthpublished at 11:06 GMT 11:06 GMT Six Nations 2026 Image source, Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-342446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342446","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=342446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}