{"id":473867,"date":"2026-03-13T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473867\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:20:09","slug":"six-nations-2026-wales-u20-need-win-against-italy-for-par-campaign-whiffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473867\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Wales U20 need win against Italy for par campaign &#8211; Whiffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales make two changes to the XV that lost in Cork with Lewis Edwards making his first start of the campaign at full-back while Dom Kossuth steps up from the bench to replace injured Dragons number eight Evan Minto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They go for six forwards on the bench with Alex Ridgway back after scoring his first try for Bath in their Prem Rugby Cup semi-final defeat by Leicester last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales are without fly-half Carwyn Leggatt-Jones, who started the first three rounds and came on against Ireland, because he has been released for Scarlets&#8217; rearranged United Rugby Championship fixture at Connacht.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whiffin believes the Six Nations performances will lead to plenty of selection headaches for the management team ahead of the World Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve grown a fair bit of depth because we will have used 35 players, given opportunities and can pick horses for courses,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to get the group down to 30 for the World Championship and it will be a good group whoever goes out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales are drawn against South Africa, hosts Georgia and Uruguay in the group stages of the expanded 16-team tournament that starts at the end of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales make two changes to the XV that lost in Cork with Lewis Edwards making his first start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473867","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\/473867","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=473867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}