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Wales U20 Side to Face France

Wales head coach Richard Whiffin has made one injury-enforced change to his starting line-up for Saturday’s U20 Six Nations clash against France at Cardiff Arms Park (KO 8pm).

Bath Rugby’s Jack Woods picked up a hamstring injury in the narrow defeat to England at Northampton last Friday and is replaced by Rhys Cummings who switches from the wing with Bristol Bears’ Evan Morris coming in to make his debut out wide.

There are two changes on the bench with Dragons RFC’s James Talamai replacing Bath Rugby’s Oscar Thomas at hooker while Bath back row man Alex Ridgway comes in for Scarlets’ Dom Kossuth.

“The boys after the game [against England] were obviously disappointed as they know that was one that got away but by the time we came in on Monday they had managed to recharge at home and were fully refreshed and ready to go for this week,” said Whiffin.

“Every game is different in its own right and Saturday will be a different entity but we know we can compete against the bigger teams. We have shown that we are a match for anyone in the competition.

“It will be different challenges on Saturday as France bring different threats than England but we go into every game with winning in our minds.

“We go into every game prepping to win and expect a performance which gives us a chance of doing that.

“The thing we are hoping for most is a similar crowd bringing similar noise to when we last played at Cardiff Arms Park against England. The players drew off the crowd so hopefully we can excite the crowd and get them behind us to energize the performance,” added Whiffin,

Wales U20 v France U20 at Cardiff Arms Park, Sat 14 Feb, 8pm

1 George Tuckley (Dragons RFC)
2 Tom Howe (Cardiff Rugby)
3 Jac Pritchard (Scarlets)
4 Luke Evans (Exeter Chiefs)
5 Osian J Williams (Bristol Bears)
6 Osian Williams (Scarlets)
7 Caio James (Gloucester)
8 Deian Gwynne (Gloucester – Co-Capt)
9 Sion Davies (Cardiff Rugby)
10 Carwyn Leggatt-Jones (Scarlets)
11 Tom Bowen (Cardiff Rugby)
12 Steffan Emanuel (Cardiff Rugby – Co-Capt)
13 Osian Darwin-Lewis (Cardiff Rugby)
14 Evan Morris (Bristol Bears)
15 Rhys Cummings (Cardiff Rugby)

Replacements:

16 James Talamai (Dragons RFC)
17 Dylan James (Ospreys)
18 Isaac Godfrey (Exeter Chiefs)
19 Tom Cottle (Cardiff Rugby)
20 Evan Minto (Dragons RFC)
21 Alex Ridgway (Bath Rugby)
22 Luca Woodyatt (Gloucester)
23 Lloyd Lucas (Cardiff Rugby)

2026 U20 Six Nations – Wales fixtures and venues

  • Fri 6 Feb, 19:45 – England 19-16 Wales, cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens, Northampton
  • Sat 14 Feb, 20:00 – Wales v France, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff
  • Fri 20 Feb, 19:15 – Wales v Scotland, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff
  • Sat 7 Mar, 19:45 – Ireland v Wales, Virgin Media Park, Cork
  • Sun 15 Mar, 13:00 – Wales v Italy, Rodney Parade, Newport
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