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Jac Morgan to captain Wales in post-Rugby World Cup fixture
By PA
Jac Morgan will captain Wales in next month’s fixture with Barbarians.
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Wales will host the invitational side at Principality Stadium on November 4 in a match which will act as a tribute to former skipper Alun Wyn Jones, who retired from international rugby in May.
Head coach Warren Gatland has called up seven players to the 23-man squad who did not feature in Wales’ World Cup campaign and named Morgan as the outright captain after he shared leadership duties with Dewi Lake in France.
No players based in France, England or Japan are selected due to this game falling outside of the international window.
Gatland said: “For this match we have a good mix of players who were part of the Rugby World Cup squad and some other players that we have worked with previously.
“We’ve decided to go with a smaller squad than usual to prepare for the game because we wanted to help the regions as much as we can by not taking too many of their players away.
“Our next World Cup cycle starts now. When you look at the potential of the players we have coming through it’s exciting.”
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The weather was dreadful but the playing surface was great so there is no real excuse for such another poor standard of play from both sides. Dragons just the better team. But, what a shocking decision by the TMO not to award the Fifita try. This pretty much sums up Welsh rugby with poor teams and poor officials. The WRU have a lot of work to do and it needs to be done quickly to avoid rugby being lost to our future generations.
Go to commentsNo chance of Borthwick selecting any young talent. He announced his selection policy from the outset with naming a poor OF as Captain, retaining an equally poor Youngs and Vunipola brothers when there were many better EQP in the Premiership. SB revival of Leicester was based on SA muscle and a terrific Welsh flanker he has generally ignored young English talent.
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