{"id":525272,"date":"2026-04-11T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525272\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:06:08","slug":"womens-six-nations-why-victory-is-essential-for-wales-in-first-game-against-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525272\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Six Nations: Why victory is essential for Wales in first game against Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should Lynn need any inspiration, he need not look far across the office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales men&#8217;s head coach Steve Tandy helped his side end a three-year Six Nations losing streak with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cwyg4xzpy41o#:~:text=Six%20Nations%202026%3A%20Wales%2031,Nations%20losing%20streak%20%2D%20BBC%20Sport\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final-round victory over Italy last month,<\/a> while performances in defeat offered plenty of encouragement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the women can turn a similar corner in their campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve worked really closely with Steve Tandy, I&#8217;ve been into his camp, it&#8217;s an open environment,&#8221; said Lynn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re about, supporting each other as a nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales captain Kate Williams said: &#8220;We can be inspired by them [Wales men], but we&#8217;re not limited to what they&#8217;re doing as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re looking internally about what we can do and finding confidence in ourselves to then be able to put out our own performance and write our own story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspiration has also been drawn from other Welsh sporting stars, including boxer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckg9eyykkeyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Price who retained her world titles in Cardiff<\/a> last weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Something like Saturday night inspired me massively,&#8221; Lynn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are one Wales and we are such a proud nation, that for me was who we are and what we&#8217;re about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should Lynn need any inspiration, he need not look far across the office. Wales men&#8217;s head coach Steve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525272","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\/525272","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=525272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}