{"id":434044,"date":"2026-02-19T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434044\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:32:08","slug":"six-nations-sam-costelow-starts-as-wales-make-four-changes-for-scotland-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434044\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Sam Costelow starts as Wales make four changes for Scotland – reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farewell from Wales’ team annoucementpublished at 10:23 GMT<\/p>\n

10:23 GMT<\/p>\n

Six Nations 2026<\/p>\n

\"WalesImage source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n

So, Wales have named their 23 to face Scotland with four changes made by head coach Steve Tandy.<\/p>\n

Apologies for technical issues that meant we were unable to bring you live pictures of the press conference.<\/p>\n

The boss was quick to point to the six-day turnaround and the new Six Nations schedule, stating that he wants to freshen up his side in the bid to avoid another Wooden Spoon.<\/p>\n

There are some exciting selections – Gabriel Hamer-Webb will be lively on the wing, Sam Costelow can get things moving when in the groove – but Wales still start as huge underdogs.<\/p>\n

The bookies have Scotland around -18 in the handicap and they will be expected to keep their title tilt going with five match points at Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n

We’ll have plenty more build-up to the game over the coming days, plus a report of the Under-20s fixture tomorrow night. <\/p>\n

Saturday’s match kicks off at 16:40 GMT and there will be live television coverage on BBC One and audio commentary on BBC Sounds via BBC Radio Sports Extra, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru.<\/p>\n

The commentary will also be available on the BBC Sport website where you can follow blow-by-blow action with our live text commentary. The match is also being televised on S4C.<\/p>\n

Can Wales cause an upset? Fingers crossed they at least make it a contest after being blown away by England and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farewell from Wales’ team annoucementpublished at 10:23 GMT 10:23 GMT Six Nations 2026 Image source, Huw Evans Picture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-434044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434044","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=434044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}