New Zealand Wales coach Warren Gatland summoned a group of 54 players on Monday to prepare for the 2023 World Cup. RC Toulon fly-half Dan Biggar and future second-line Racing 92 Will Rowlands, are one of them. Just like the pillar of Montpellier Henry Thomas, of which it is, at 31, the first convocation. The neo-Briviste Ross Moriarty, was not retained.
After a complicated Six Nations Tournament, with players’ strike threats against a background of economic crisis in their clubs, concluded with a single victory (four defeats), Gatland has confidence in the majority of its executives, from Alun Wyn Jones to George North, via Leigh Halfpenny or Captain Ken Owens.
The Welsh provinces, absent from the URC finals as well as the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup finals, having finished their season last weekend, the internationals will have a few weeks of vacation before starting the long preparation for the World Cup (September 8-October 28) from May 25.
Before, in July, leaving for internships in Switzerland and then in Türkiye. The XV du Chardon will then play three warm-up matches in August, two against England and one against South Africa.
