{"id":627078,"date":"2026-06-08T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627078\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:23:23","slug":"louie-hennessey-bath-centre-to-miss-wales-summer-games-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627078\/","title":{"rendered":"Louie Hennessey: Bath centre to miss Wales’ summer games with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening game of Wales’ summer series is a double-header against the Barbarians<\/a> at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n

The men’s match will kick off at 14:00 BST with the women’s game following at 17:00 in games that are expected to be uncapped.<\/p>\n

It is considered an away game for Wales so Barbarians choose the venue as the “home side” while the Principality Stadium is hosting non-related rugby events over the summer with Metallica playing a rock concert in Cardiff on Sunday, 28 June.<\/p>\n

Wales will then play three away games in the summer campaign against Fiji, Argentina and South Africa in World Rugby’s new biennial competition.<\/p>\n

Wales open their Nations Championship campaign against Fiji<\/a> at Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday, 4 July.<\/p>\n

It is an away game for Wales with Fiji playing their home matches at venues outside their country.<\/p>\n

It will be the first time the Wales men’s national side play an international at the home of Cardiff City football club.<\/p>\n

Wales then travel to play Argentina in San Juan on Saturday, 11 July before making the trip to play the Springboks in Durban seven days later.<\/p>\n

Tandy’s side will host Japan, New Zealand and Australia at Principality Stadium in November in the second half of the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n

Saturday, 27 June<\/p>\n

Barbarians v Wales, Allianz Stadium, Twickenham (14:00 BST)<\/p>\n

Nations Championship<\/p>\n

Saturday, 4 July<\/p>\n

Fiji v Wales, Cardiff City Stadium (14:10)<\/p>\n

Saturday, 11 July<\/p>\n

Argentina v Wales, Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario (20:10)<\/p>\n

Saturday, 18 July<\/p>\n

South Africa v Wales, Hollywoodbets Kings Park, Durban (16:40)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening game of Wales’ summer series is a double-header against the Barbarians at Allianz Stadium. The men’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627078","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\/627078","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=627078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}