Following the Bristol positional switch, it remains to be seen whether Tandy will continue asking Rees-Zammit to play full-back this summer.<\/p>\n
Wales are preparing to face Barbarians on 27 June<\/a> before Nations Championship matches against Fiji,<\/a> Argentina and South Africa in July.<\/p>\n The other number 15 options Tandy has named in his 48-man squad<\/a> for the four matches include Blair Murray, Tom Rogers, Josh Adams and Ellis Mee.<\/p>\n There was no room for more specialist number 15s such as Cameron Winnett, Jacob Beetham or the uncapped Angus O’Brien.<\/p>\n For more than a decade, Wales have been blessed with two world class full-backs in British and Irish Lions pair Williams<\/a> and Leigh Halfpenny,<\/a> but the pair have both announced their retirements in the past few months.<\/p>\n A natural long-term successor has yet to emerge, with Williams saying Scarlets back Murray, who has been used on the wing and full-back by club and country, is the best current option for Tandy. <\/p>\n “With the ball in hand he [Murray] can make something happen,” said Williams, who has been working with the Scarlets backs in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n “He has also got a decent [kicking] left foot which is a nice option to have.”<\/p>\n Former Scarlets and Wales centre Jonathan Davies agreed that Murray is the leading current option.<\/p>\n “He [Murray] is working on his aerial game,” said Davies.<\/p>\n “When you look at the options, you have to look at where you are willing to concede in some areas to gain in others.<\/p>\n “Blair gives you the biggest positives in his all-round game for the number 15 jersey.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the Bristol positional switch, it remains to be seen whether Tandy will continue asking Rees-Zammit to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609695","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\/609695","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=609695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}