{"id":407946,"date":"2026-02-04T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:29:08","slug":"six-nations-man-for-man-were-ready-to-stand-up-wales-flanker-macleod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407946\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Man for man we&#8217;re ready to stand up &#8211; Wales flanker Macleod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Macleod credits Wales head coach Steve Tandy for the feeling of togetherness, especially when Welsh rugby has been rocked by regional uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t really felt it as much as I have coming into this campaign, how tight the boys are, how connected the boys are,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Man for man we&#8217;re ready to stand up for each other and fight and I think that is going to be massive on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s purely down to Steve and his coaching group, the values that they&#8217;ve set &#8211; care and connection being the main ones &#8211; and the boys have really bought into that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlets captain Macleod is set to make his Six Nations debut, five years after being named in Wales&#8217; 2021 squad, but as it has so often in his career, injury cruelly struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday will also be a first outing against England and a first trip to Allianz Stadium, something he said would be &#8220;an unbelievable honour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It will probably feel like going into a war zone,&#8221; said Macleod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macleod credits Wales head coach Steve Tandy for the feeling of togetherness, especially when Welsh rugby has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-407946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}