Sam Costelow, the catalyst in a much improved Welsh performance against Scotland, won’t be fit to face Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on Friday night in Round 4 of the Guinness Six Nations. “We had a good performance against Ireland in Cardiff last year and you could feel a bit of a buzz in the squad. We had the players back in at the latter end of last week, reviewed the Scotland game and there was a fair bit of positivity around it,” added Sherratt. The things we had been working on before the Scotland game, like the improvement in our first three phases and some of our width defensively, went straight from the training field into the game. We'll have to be good both sides of the ball and around set-piece because Ireland are a very good all-round team.”

Source: Irish Examiner March 03, 2026 04:03 UTC