The Wales males’s worldwide aspect is considered the top of Welsh rugby.

Having not recorded a Take a look at victory in 2024, two wins this 12 months towards Japan and staying on the earth’s high 12 to keep away from a more durable World Cup pool draw is perhaps deemed as progress.

Probably not.

In 2025, Wales have had three males’s head coaches, prolonged their undesirable file towards tier one international locations to 18 successive Take a look at defeats, suffered a second successive Six Nations clear sweep of defeats and been humiliated in Cardiff with file house losses towards England, Argentina and South Africa.

Performed 10, misplaced 10. That was the dismal file of Wales’ two nationwide sides within the 2025 Six Nations over the house of 86 tough days.

From the 43-0 Friday evening Paris mauling suffered by the boys’s aspect in January, to the 44-12 hammering inflicted by Italy’s girls in late April, it proved a depressing three months as each side completed all-time low.

After Warren Gatland resigned in February following defeat to Italy in Rome, Matt Sherratt took over as interim boss for the remainder of the Six Nations and the summer season tour of Japan earlier than Steve Tandy was appointed previous to the autumn internationals.

There may need been a change of personnel however the chastening days will reside lengthy within the reminiscence for all of the fallacious causes.

It was exhausting to see how dropping 68-14 and conceding 10 tries towards England on the Principality Stadium in March may very well be topped.

That was earlier than the 73-0 loss by the hands of South Africa on the finish of November, the second worst end in Welsh rugby’s historical past. These two days have been among the many bleakest identified.

There was no shock when there was a file low of two gamers, captain Jac Morgan and scrum-half Tomos Williams, named within the British and Irish Lions touring occasion to Australia.

Morgan got here on as a alternative and produced a controversial, essential clearout within the successful rating that sealed the second Take a look at and the sequence.

However aside from that second, Welsh rugby appeared like a watching bystander to the mixed success of England, Eire and Scotland.