{"id":31955,"date":"2026-07-09T02:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nations-championship-kane-james-in-mix-for-wales-debut-against-argentina\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:44:18","slug":"nations-championship-kane-james-in-mix-for-wales-debut-against-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nations-championship-kane-james-in-mix-for-wales-debut-against-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: Kane James in mix for Wales debut against Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales are considering giving Exeter back-row forward Kane James a Test debut against Argentina in the Nations Championship.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old is in contention for a place on the bench to face the Pumas in San Juan on Saturday (20:10 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Steve Tandy is poised to freshen up his side after starting the Nations Championship with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c0my2xvzg3do\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">win against Fiji<\/a> at Cardiff City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales fielded a starting trio of Alex Mann, Jac Morgan and Aaron Wainwright in the back row with James Botham and Taine Plumtree coming off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James could win his first cap against Argentina after a breakthrough season with Prem runners-up Exeter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clyex4l01zzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales are considering giving Exeter back-row forward Kane James a Test debut against Argentina in the Nations Championship. The 21-year-old is in contention for a place on the bench to face the Pumas in San Juan on Saturday (20:10 BST). Head coach Steve Tandy is poised to freshen up his side after starting the Nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31955","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\/31955","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=31955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31957,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31955\/revisions\/31957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}