{"id":799607,"date":"2026-10-11T23:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799607\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T23:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:32:13","slug":"gareth-davies-should-return-from-test-rugby-retirement-for-2027-world-cup-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799607\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Davies should return from Test rugby retirement for 2027 World Cup &#8211; Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baldwin also recalls the 2015 World Cup when Davies scored an iconic Welsh try as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/34350871\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they beat England,<\/a> a result that played a significant part in the hosts&#8217; tournament downfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you look look back to the World Cup I went to. We lost our first choice 9, 15, 10, 12 and had [scrum-half] Lloyd Williams playing on the wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re a very resilient nation and sometimes we&#8217;ve got to be a little bit smarter on the players we&#8217;ve got. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are missing depth in certain areas but if you can get Wales&#8217; best 23, fit and healthy and on the pitch, they&#8217;ll always have a fighter&#8217;s chance. That&#8217;s all we really need and all we&#8217;ve probably ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baldwin&#8217;s comments were echoed by Scarlets director of rugby Nigel Davies who hailed the scrum-half&#8217;s &#8220;superb&#8221; contribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Gareth has been struggling with having to sit in the wings a little bit because he&#8217;s such a competitor, but he&#8217;s getting used to actually contributing in different ways to what he&#8217;s done in the past and he came on and made a big difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baldwin also recalls the 2015 World Cup when Davies scored an iconic Welsh try as they beat England,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799607","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\/799607","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=799607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}