Wales,2014 Ais announced.

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Wales will play NZ,SA,AUS,FIJI.

Wales to face New Zealand, South Africa and Australia in 2014

Wales will face southern hemisphere giants New Zealand, South Africa and Australia next autumn.
The International Rugby Board's top three ranked sides will visit Cardiff along with Fiji in 2014.
Australia and South Africa defeated Wales during the recent autumn series.
"If you want to be the best, you have to play the best and the 2014 autumn schedule reconfirms that commitment," said WRU Group chief executive Roger Lewis.
The matches against New Zealand, Australia and Fiji will be part of the IRB autumn window with South Africa confirmed as the fourth game of the series.
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Wales 26-30 Australia: Wallabies triumph in Cardiff thriller
New Zealand beat Wales 33-10 at the Millennium Stadium in 2012 while Fiji's last visit to Cardiff in 2010 ended in a 16-16 draw,
All four games at the Millennium Stadium, which will be live on the BBC, are subject to final IRB approval and dates and kick off times will be confirmed at a later date.
Welsh Rugby Union chief Lewis said the 2014 autumn series would be the ideal preparation for Warren Gatland's side ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
"We will only have 12 matches in total in the run-up to our opening game at the tournament, so we must secure every opportunity to test ourselves at the highest level," Lewis added.


So i take it it will be 4 losses out of 4 for Wales next year.

What do you think?

maestegmafia wrote:

GloriousEmpire wrote:Are you looking forward to it maes? Even marginally?

Definitely. I always look forward to internationals.

Good stuff. Don't look back in anger. Keep looking forwards. The future is forwards.

maestegmafia wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:Not set yet but unless a change is approved by the IRB it's the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weekends in November (this is specified in Reg 9). So it can be moved but that's the standard.

So I'd say 8th/9th, 15th/16th and 22nd/23rd

Thats England, Wales and SA struggling to agree players releases then. Lets hope the IRB stretches the window to encompass the whole of November.

looks like englands player release is going to be fine without HC to fit in. Wouldnt be too optimistic about PRL allowing clubs to release welsh players to the WRU outside of the window if the current RRW/WRU situations persists or worsens.

England will possibly lose their 4 AI's next year too, more chance of that than Wales doing it. They will also have to endure a 0 from 4 against Wales although they will not be hammered by as many hopefully, must break their hearts when that happens:yahoo:   

GloriousEmpire wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:

GloriousEmpire wrote:Are you looking forward to it maes? Even marginally?

Definitely. I always look forward to internationals.

Good stuff. Don't look back in anger. Keep looking forwards. The future is forwards.

Where's the emoticon for 'right over his head'?

rainbow-warrior wrote:England will possibly lose their 4 AI's next year too, more chance of that than Wales doing it.  They will also have to endure a 0 from 4 against Wales although they will not be hammered by as many hopefully, must break their hearts when that happens:yahoo:   

i look forwards to watching wales breaking their 10+ year duck against SH top 3 opposition. your confidence would probably qualify you to make statements for the welsh team. your short term memory certainly would.

quinsforever wrote:

rainbow-warrior wrote:England will possibly lose their 4 AI's next year too, more chance of that than Wales doing it.  They will also have to endure a 0 from 4 against Wales although they will not be hammered by as many hopefully, must break their hearts when that happens:yahoo:   

i look forwards to watching wales breaking their 10+ year duck against SH top 3 opposition. your confidence would probably qualify you to make statements for the welsh team. your short term memory certainly would.

6 years. But who's counting?!