{"id":578487,"date":"2026-05-11T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:10:10","slug":"reaction-as-tandy-names-wales-squad-for-nations-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578487\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction as Tandy names Wales squad for Nations Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midfield optionspublished at 15:37 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:37 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Wales summer squad 2026<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wales centres Joe Hawkins and Eddie James\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8530b6c7-db41-42af-a724-0496f2066b5e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2131\" height=\"1198\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Attack coach Matt Sherratt has some thinking to do after convincing Steve Tandy to pick SEVEN centres in his squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joe Hawkins replaced Ben Thomas to finish the Six Nations alongside the impressive Eddie James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Max Llewellyn got the nod in the autumn but then suffered an injury to miss the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are joined by Joe Roberts, who came in to face the Springboks, plus two promising prospects from English clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bath&#8217;s Louie Hennessey won his first cap against Ireland while Harlequins&#8217; Bryn Bradley comes into the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven centres and still the likes of Owen Watkin, Johnny Williams, Nick Tompkins and influential uncapped Dragon Aneurin Owen miss out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midfield optionspublished at 15:37 BST 15:37 BST Wales summer squad 2026 Image source, Huw Evans Picture Agency Attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578487","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\/578487","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=578487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578487\/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=578487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}