Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast

Part One of our Autumn Series Preview on the Welsh Rugby Union Podcast, featuring Warren Gatland and Will Rowlands.

We speak to new Welsh Rugby Writers Association Wales Player of the Year Aaron Wainwright, back at Whiteheads, where he started playing and helps out coaching. We also hear from Wales assistant coach Rob Howley, while chatting about the community and elite games with Dragons head coach Dai Flanagan and former Wales hooker Paul Young.

We go along to Aberavon against Carmarthen Quins to find out, hear from WRU Performance Director Huw Bevan and find out from former Wales hooker Scott Baldwin why he is back at Bridgend.

A focus on the new look WRU Schools and College League, for more boys and girls than ever before.

Three wise men of the new Super Rygbi Cymru competition, Tom Habberfield, Ben Roach and Tom Phillips chat in this week's Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

Super Rygbi Cymru has a huge role to play this season, we look forward in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We speak to Wales U20s coach Richard Whiffin and Cardiff’s Dan Fish about the benefits of the new competition.

A special on refereeing in Wales in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. What are the chances to getting Welsh men and women back in the middle of rugby world cup matches, what are the opportunities, what are the best ways of improving the game. Plenty to talk about with WRU National Elite Performance Match Official Manager Ian Davies and Olympics referee Ben Breakspear.

A special with WRU Performance Pathway and Talent Manager Andy Lloyd after Wales finished their World Rugby Championships campaign in the second group of nations.

An opportunity to hear in depth from Martin Anayi, the CEO of the BKT URC, on how things went this year, the overall state of the league and what’s coming up next year, in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

This week we have one of our special interviews – and a chance to find out about community rugby in Wales, the changes coming up next season, the state of the men’s and women’s games around Wales, plenty to get our teeth into with Chris Ower, WRU Head Of Playing & Retention.

We hear from Wales Under 20s in South Africa and the stories behind the headlines from the Wales Women camp, in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

We reflect on Wales Women beating Spain, and Wales U20 hoping to repeat that feat, in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

The new Five Year, One Wales, Welsh Rugby Union strategy was outlined this week. By CEO Abi Tierney and Chair Richard Collier-Keywood, with an overview of the WRU’s plans for the future of the game. A new headline strategy entitled ‘One Wales, where rugby matters more…’ has been revealed, on the 25th anniversary of the Principality Stadium’s opening day. Coverage of that, Wales Women and U20s in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

We hear from Warren Gatland and Taine Plumtree about facing South Africa, along with Jaz Joyce and Tom Williams about GB Sevens hopes for the Paris Olympics, in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

Wales Under 20s announce their World Championships squad, and we hear much more about the state of refereeing and laws in the BKT URC, in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

We hear from Warren Gatland about Wales, Toby Booth about the Ospreys, and how Ospreys lock Huw Sutton found his way to regional rugby, in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

A special on Judgement Day, hearing from all four Welsh regions at the end of the season in this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast.

If you are interested in women’s rugby – or women’s sport in general – then this week’s Welsh Rugby Union Podcast is a must listen. It is a Special from the WRU Women and Girls Game Changer Conference – a chance to speak to the experts who made presentations.

We take a deep dive into the world of women’s rugby, in Wales and worldwide, in this weeks Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We speak to World Rugby Head of Women’s Programmes Atlanta St John, World Rugby Head of Women’s High Performance Nicky Ponsford, as well as WRU Chief Executive Abi Tierney and some of the winners from Women’s Finals Day at the Principality Stadium.

A special on the Indigo Premiership Final – and what we can expect next season at this level – in the Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. To check in with Llandovery and Newport ahead of the final this weekend, we speak to Llandovery coach Euros Evans and Newport outside half Matt O’Brien. Plus we hear from Llandovery centre pairing, Wales U20’s Macs Page and former Wales centre Adam Warren.