Llanelli Standard

Steff Evans to say farewell to Scarlets at the end of the season Steff Evans, one of the leading try-scorers in URC history, will be saying his farewell to the Scarlets at the end of the season. The 30-year-old Wales international wing made his debut for the club against Zebre in November 2014  – as […]

Scarlets’ Wales international back-rower Taine Plumtree has become the latest player to commit his future to the club. The 25-year-old is in his second season in West Wales having made the move from New Zealand in the summer of 2023. Born in Swansea, Taine was awarded his first Wales cap ahead of the 2023 Rugby […]

Wales international Blair Murray returns to the Scarlets side for the big West Wales derby against the Ospreys on Saturday (15:00; S4C, Premier Sports). Murray sat out last weekend’s clash with the DHL Stormers because of a calf issue, but is back as the lone change to the starting XV for the crucial BKT United […]

Dwayne Peel and Mark Jones go back a long way, but that friendship will be put to one side when they lock horns this weekend. The pair came up through the youth ranks together, progressing into the Scarlets side before also becoming Wales team-mates, winning 76 and 47 caps respectively. Since hanging up their boots, […]

It goes back to the days of Llanelli’s arch rivalry with Swansea, the Turks against the Jacks, ‘The Battle of the Loughor’. The Loughor Bridge, originally a railway viaduct built in 1852, stretches across the beautiful Loughor Estuary and continues to be an iconic dividing point between two great rugby hotbeds. On the West side […]

Skipper Josh Macleod returns from injury to lead the Scarlets into their crucial BKT United Rugby Championship clash with DHL Stormers at Parc y Scarlets on Saturday (15:00; S4C, Premier Sports). Macleod has missed the last two matches with a hamstring injury and is one of six personnel changes from the side that took the […]