Get to know up-and-coming Scarlets wing Ryan Conbeer
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Talking points: Domestic finals promise drama, elation and despair in equal measure
By tomorrow evening, just a shade after 8pm, the 2016-17 domestic season will be a footnote, and we’ll know which clubs have been engraved into the history books. At Twickenham,…
Saints and sinners: The weekend’s talking points
Injury to Billy Vunipola, forcing him out of the Lions tour, overshadows a sensational weekend of semi-final drama that includes an historic away win for Scarlets and last-gasp triumphs for…
Saints and sinners: The weekend’s talking points
THE SAINTS Gav rolls back the years It’s 12 years since Gavin Henson famously dumped Mathew Tait on the Cardiff turf with what would now be deemed a tip tackle…
Hotshot: Scarlets fly-half Billy McBryde
When did you start playing rugby? I went to my local club, Tumble, when I was six or seven. I was there through the age grades and got picked up…
Hotshot: Scarlets centre Ioan Nicholas
How did you get into rugby? My father, Adrian, was a wing at Pontyberem and when I wanted to start playing with my friends he coached our team all the…
Hotshot: Scarlets flanker Tom Phillips
When did you take up rugby? When I was seven, playing touch, and ever since then I have played week in week out. I started with Llanelli Wanderers and stayed…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints The ultimate long shot When you are trailing 23-0 at half-time, away from home in France, no one gives you much hope of turning a game around. Ulster…
Samson Lee on his Wales team-mates
THE SCARLETS tighthead is one of the hottest properties in rugby, and one of the fastest-rising Test stars in Wales. He is featured in Rugby World’s Six Nations special, but…
Six Nations player watch: Jake Ball, Scarlets and Wales
Every now and then, amid the high-and-tight haircuts, base-layers and white boots, you come across a player who would look right at home on a 13th century battlefield. Very occasionally, they…