{"id":8697,"date":"2026-03-01T18:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/woodman-and-assiratti-join-wales-six-nations-squad\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:20:03","slug":"woodman-and-assiratti-join-wales-six-nations-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/woodman-and-assiratti-join-wales-six-nations-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodman and Assiratti join Wales&#8217; Six Nations squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published19 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cardiff&#x27;s Keiron Assiratti and Dragons&#x27; Ryan Woodman have been added to Steve Tandy&#x27;s Wales squad who resume their Six Nations campaign in Ireland on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Recalled prop Assiratti and uncapped flanker Woodman joined the squad when they returned to camp on Sunday after the tournament&#x27;s fallow week.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreys <a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cqlger2nvnxo\">lock Rhys Davies<\/a> and Scarlets back-rower Taine Plumtree have both been ruled out for the remainder of the tournament and 22-year-old Woodman can operate in both positions.<\/p>\n<p>The Newport-born former Wales Under-20s captain has 43 Dragons appearances, featuring in 13 of 16 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Tight-head Assiratti was named in Tandy&#x27;s original squad for this year&#x27;s campaign but was released after a calf injury before the first match against England.<\/p>\n<p>Wales are also waiting on the fitness of fly-half Sam Costelow before they travel to Dublin looking for their first win in 15 Six Nations games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\/teams\/ng-dragons\">Dragons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\/welsh\">Welsh Rugby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\/teams\/cardiff-blues\">Cardiff<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\/teams\/wales\">Wales Rugby Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\">Rugby Union<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/czd8086y7v2o\">\n<p>Uncapped Dragons forward tipped for World Cup call<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published4 days ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c1mjp9zk1gmo\">\n<p>Costelow hope for Wales but Plumtree out of Six Nations<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published3 days ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodman and Assiratti join Wales&#x27; Six Nations squadImage source, Huw Evans Picture AgencyImage caption, Ryan Woodman trained with Wales for the first time last month while Keiron Assiratti has 19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}