{"id":13541,"date":"2025-04-23T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/womens-six-nations-wales-faith-in-sean-lynn-will-pay-off-carys-cox\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T07:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:54:05","slug":"womens-six-nations-wales-faith-in-sean-lynn-will-pay-off-carys-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/womens-six-nations-wales-faith-in-sean-lynn-will-pay-off-carys-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Six Nations: Wales&#8217; faith in Sean Lynn will pay off &#8211; Carys Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the losses, Wales have scored almost twice as many points in the Six Nations as they had at this stage in last year&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trailfinders player Cox is evidently enjoying life under Lynn, having gained more metres than every other player in the Six Nations except England stars Ellie Kildunne and Abby Dow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only Italy&#8217;s Sara Tounesi has made more offloads than Dow, who is also the only player with more linebreaks than Cox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wales speedster opened the scoring against Ireland last Sunday before Hannah Bluck followed. It was the first time the backs had scored all of Wales&#8217; points since they faced Italy last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Out attack is much more varied now and I&#8217;m really enjoying being involved far more,&#8221; said Cox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the past we&#8217;ve relied heavily on our forwards to score tries but that&#8217;s not rugby. You need an all-round game and that&#8217;s a big positive for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been given freedom to give things a go, try new combinations and moves without fear of failing as we build to the World Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Italy fixture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clywekke80vo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">is to be rearranged<\/a> due to the funeral of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two teams were due to meet in Parma at lunchtime on Saturday, 26 April in the final round of the tournament, but the Pope&#8217;s funeral will take place at 10:00 local time (09:00 BST) that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tournament organisers have yet to confirm when &#8211; or where &#8211; the game will now go ahead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clyqgyq8m76o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the losses, Wales have scored almost twice as many points in the Six Nations as they had at this stage in last year&#8217;s tournament. Trailfinders player Cox is evidently enjoying life under Lynn, having gained more metres than every other player in the Six Nations except England stars Ellie Kildunne and Abby Dow. Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13543,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions\/13543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}