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Wales failed to win a single Test match throughout 2024 with a run of 12 defeats in a row - the worst run in the team's 143-year history - but head coach Warren Gatland was backed by the Welsh ...
He made his Cardiff Rugby debut from the bench that season, appearing against Benetton Rugby and Dragons RFC in the United Rugby Championship. [ 5 ] He made his first Cardiff Rugby start in December 2023 aged 19 years-old, when named in the starting XV against Stade Toulousain in the European Rugby Champions Cup .
On 1 May 2023, Warren Gatland selected him in Wales' 54 player training squad for the Rugby World Cup 2023. [2]Domachowski made his debut on 5 August 2023, starting for Wales in the first test of their 2023 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches, in a win against England [3]
He made his first start for Dragons in the United Rugby Championship against Glasgow Warriors in January 2023. [6] Coghlan signed an academy contract with the Dragons in April 2023. [7] He continued to play for Dragons in the United Rugby Championship during the 2023-24 season. [8]
In July 2023, he signed a pro contract with Cardiff Rugby to move from the academy to the first-team squad. [5] He made his United Rugby Championship debut for Cardiff Rugby against the Stormers, on 24 November 2023. [6] He scored his first Cardiff Rugby try on 9 December 2023 against Stade Toulousain in the European Rugby Champions Cup. [7]
The Wales national rugby league team represents the nation of Wales in international rugby league, and is governed by Wales Rugby League (Welsh: Rygbi Cynghrair Cymru). The team played its first official match in 1908. Since then, more than 500 players have made at least one international appearance for the team.
In November 2008, Shane Williams and Ryan Jones became the first Welsh players to be nominated in a group of five players for the World Rugby Player of the Year award, first awarded in 2001. Shane Williams was duly selected as the 2008 World Rugby Player of the Year. [37] Leigh Halfpenny was nominated in 2013 and Alun Wyn Jones in 2015.
A Wales age grades international, Biggar was selected for the Wales national rugby union team for the 2008 Autumn Internationals series, making his debut at the age of 19 against Canada on 18 November. On 18 January 2010, Biggar was named in the 35-man Wales national squad for the 2010 Six Nations tournament. [9]