{"id":423543,"date":"2026-02-13T12:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423543\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:08:11","slug":"six-nations-2026-joe-hawkins-starts-as-wales-make-four-changes-for-france-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423543\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Joe Hawkins starts as Wales make four changes for France &#8211; reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s it from Wales&#8217; team announcementpublished at 10:21 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:21 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Six Nations 2026<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steve Tandy\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2026\/2\/13\/1628f3a4-d7a3-4f5b-b854-61f437d959e8.jpg.webp\"  width=\"3300\" height=\"1856\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s it from Steve Tandy&#8217;s press conference with the broadcast media, he has now gone off to speak with the written press, with those comments to be published later in the day or tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wales head coach spoke about his selections, the threat of France and the approach that will be needed against Les Bleus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tandy&#8217;s side will be huge underdogs and if anything it&#8217;s the performance that matters given that they have a six-day turnaround to Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After shipping half-centuries to England, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa in 2025, can Wales avoid another drubbing in Cardiff against a very dangerous French team?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll find out on Sunday afternoon. Thanks for following this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s it from Wales&#8217; team announcementpublished at 10:21 GMT 10:21 GMT Six Nations 2026 Image source, Huw Evans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-423543","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\/423543","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=423543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}