{"id":426294,"date":"2026-02-15T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426294\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:44:08","slug":"six-nations-dafydd-jenkins-backs-dewi-lake-to-continue-as-wales-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426294\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Dafydd Jenkins backs Dewi Lake to continue as Wales captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenkins, 23, has captained Rob Baxter&#8217;s resurgent Exeter Chiefs side this season with the play-offs very much in sight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s class down there,&#8221; he said, citing quality players and quality people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of his good friends is Wales forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3v7leewr3no\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christ Tshiunza who has been linked with a move to Cardiff<\/a> next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope he doesn&#8217;t [go], because he&#8217;s a good mate. We&#8217;ve come through all the age groups together,&#8221; said Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenkins says there a similarities in terms of where Exeter were a couple of seasons ago and where Wales find themselves now.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing with Exeter, it wasn&#8217;t huge changes we had to make, it was just the little ones, everyday training and stuff,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You make those changes, have a good pre-season, have a good first few games, get that momentum and the season comes a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s similar here [with Wales]. We&#8217;re a young group and I believe if we continue to make those changes and push as a team, we will be a good side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I personally see where this group can go. I&#8217;m confident by the time we get to the World Cup we&#8217;ll be firing and causing teams a lot of problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenkins, 23, has captained Rob Baxter&#8217;s resurgent Exeter Chiefs side this season with the play-offs very much in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-426294","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\/426294","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=426294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}