{"id":471282,"date":"2026-03-12T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471282\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:33:14","slug":"six-nations-2026-wales-head-coach-steve-tandy-names-unchanged-xv-for-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471282\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Wales head coach Steve Tandy names unchanged XV for Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wales team to face Italypublished at 09:02 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:02 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Six Nations 2026<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhys Carre and Wales XV\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/aef5d6fc-3e6e-4bfe-bade-b0aa786c11f7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wales team is out and for the first time in his nine games in charge, head coach Steve Tandy names an unchanged starting side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In fact the only change from last week&#8217;s thrilling game in Dublin is Blair Murray getting a place on the bench in place of debutant Louie Hennessey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By coincidence, it&#8217;s the first time Wales have picked the same 15 since after the last time they played Ireland in the Six Nations &#8211; under Matt Sherratt &#8211; last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales: Rees-Zammit; Mee, James, Hawkins, Adams; Edwards, Williams; Carre, Lake, Francis, Jenkins, Carter, Mann, Wainwright, Botham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Elias, Smith, Griffin, Beard, Cracknell, Hardy, Evans, Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales team to face Italypublished at 09:02 GMT 09:02 GMT Six Nations 2026 Image source, Huw Evans Picture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-471282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471282","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=471282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471282\/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=471282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}