France arrive in Cardiff next Sunday with Wales searching for a first Six Nations home win in four years.<\/p>\n
The calamitous state of Welsh rugby means the WRU is struggling to sell out their three home games this year, with thousands of tickets still available for next weekend.<\/p>\n
Tandy hopes Wales will receive the usual home backing.<\/p>\n
“The fans have been amazing support for the team,” said Tandy.<\/p>\n
“We know what it means to the boys to play in the Principality Stadium and the fans give them huge belief.”<\/p>\n
Whether the Wales head coach will make changes remains to be seen as he balances reacting to an underwhelming display and the need to develop a settled side.<\/p>\n
He says there would be no “knee-jerk reaction” and full-back Louis Rees-Zammit appears to have done enough to keep the number 15 jersey.<\/p>\n
The former NFL triallist was making his first Six Nations appearance for almost three years and is settling into a new position after switching from the wing.<\/p>\n
After a shaky start where he had an early kick charged down, Rees-Zammit settled down and produced one searing second-half break.<\/p>\n
“He did well in his first start at 15 in a while for us,” said Tandy.<\/p>\n
“In Test match rugby, there’s not much space but I thought he adapted with the aerial battles.<\/p>\n
“He’s a big man and lit the game up in moments. It’s looking how we can get more of those moments.”<\/p>\n
So maybe one thing for Welsh fans hold on to. There is currently not much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France arrive in Cardiff next Sunday with Wales searching for a first Six Nations home win in four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-415679","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\/415679","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=415679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}