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Welsh player Shane Williams regions team of the season and Wales star rules himself out of Rugby World Cup

Welsh player Shane Williams has selected the season's top 23 players, including several uncapped young players. The most recent rugby news, both from Wales and overseas. Here are the latest RWC news stories for May 8's bank holiday. The Rugby Paper asked Wales' all-time leading try scorer to select his squad of the year, and Warren Gatland will find his choices to be thought-provoking.

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Welsh player Shane Williams has selected the season's top 23 players, including several uncapped young players. The most recent rugby news, both from Wales and overseas. RWC 2023 fans can buy Wales Rugby World Cup Tickets from our website.

Here are the latest RWC news stories for May 8's bank holiday. The Rugby Paper asked Wales' all-time leading try scorer to select his squad of the year, and Warren Gatland will find his choices to be thought-provoking.

Welsh player Shane Williams chooses four uncapped players

Fullback Jordan Williams, center Keiran Williams, prop Keiron Assiratti, and Ospreys back-rower Morgan Morris are the four uncapped players chosen by Welsh player Shane Williams for his starting lineup. Nine Ospreys, six Scarlets, four each from Cardiff and the Dragons, and nine players from Ospreys make up his 23-man roster.

Returning try ace Tomi Lewis, who tore it up in England this season by aiding Jersey Reds to win the Championship, is one of the Scarlets he selects. Welsh player Shane Williams, believes the teenager, who is returning to Llanelli after shining with Jersey, may succeed Leigh Halfpenny and Liam Williams as Wales RWC team full-backs in 18 months.

Two foreign RWC players

Sam Lousi and Vaea Fifita, the Scarlets' Tongan lock duo, are two of the two international players to make the team. The rest of the lineup is largely made up of young Welsh Rugby World cup players, according to Welsh player Shane Williams, who believes they hold promise for the future following the four regions' disappointing performance. Is this the four Welsh professional teams' poorest season ever? If not.

it won't be long before it is since, as they say, things can only get better. Even though Gatland did not include the Scarlets flyer in his large World Cup training group, he chooses Steff Evans for one of the wings. The majority of the Welsh players Shane selects have a good chance of traveling to France this year. Jordan Williams and Morgan Morris, however, have not been chosen by Gatland in addition to Evans.

Evans, according to him, "was in top form for the Scarlets, scoring 12 tries in 23 appearances."

Keiran Williams and Mason Grady, his two young centers, are "international players in waiting," according to him. He did a fantastic job of consistently bringing the Ospreys across the goal line with his direct rushing and quick feet. Because his old teammate Joe Hawkins is no longer in the race, he seems to me to be prepared for duty on the grandest of stages.

Grady, on the other hand, makes me think of a young George North when he first appeared on the scene. He is swift, enormous, elusive, and equally at home in the center or on the flank. He is likely to develop into a crucial weapon for both the club and the nation. Scarlets No. 10 Saw Costelow, another young player, is given the fly-half position.

Rhys Webb, a seasoned professional, was selected as the top scrum-half. Gatland still needs to decide on his World Cup nine players, with Webb competing for a position against Tomos Williams, Kieran Hardy, and Gareth Davies. Shane's front row includes Ospreys loosehead Nicky Smith, who was overlooked for the Six Nations.

Elliot Dee, a hooker with the Dragons, was picked over Wales' Six Nations captain Ken Owens due to Dee's outstanding performance for the Rodney Parade team. Several players could have been selected for the back row, according to him, but he chooses the Ospreys' Jac Morgan, Justin Tipuric, and Morgan Morris trio as "the best combination. Rugby World Cup fans can buy Wales Vs Georgia Tickets from our website.

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