Nicky Smith rugby player
Nicky Smith rugby player

Nicky Smith

7th Apr 1994 1.83m/116kg Loosehead Prop

Round 4 United Rugby Championship Previews

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Ahead of Round 4 of the BKT United Rugby Championship journalist Simon Thomas provides his Previews. Zebre Parma v Hollywoodbets Sharks 17.30 UK & IRE / 18:30 ITA / 19:30 SA, Friday While both teams...

Ospreys announce team to face Glasgow Warriors

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Ospreys have named their squad to face the Glasgow Warriors in Round 4 of the BKT URC. The game will take place at the Swansea.com Stadium and is kicking off on Saturday 11th November at 17:15pm. The...

Justin Tipuric inspires Ospreys to narrow victory over Zebre Parma

5 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Justin Tipuric was at his trademark, brilliant best as Ospreys bagged their first victory of this season’s United Rugby Championship with a 34-31 win over Zebre Parma at the Swansea.com Stadium. The...

Costelow in for injured Anscombe - Wales make late change for Georgia match

5 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Wales head coach Warren Gatland has to make a late change to his match-day 23, with Sam Costelow (pictured) moving from the bench to start at fly-half instead of Gareth Anscombe, who suffered a groin injury...

Match Preview: Wales v Georgia

5 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Wales have already qualified for the quarter-finals, but a point here against Georgia will ensure top spot in Pool C and set up a last-eight match against the second-placed team from Pool D in Marseille...

Alex King wants Wales to keep standards high as they chase top spot in group

5 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Alex King says that Wales are about maintaining high standards as they build towards a final Rugby World Cup pool game and potentially topping their group. Wales’ appearance in a fourth successive...

Anscombe to start at fly-half - Wales announce squad to play Georgia

5 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Wales head coach Warren Gatland has named his match-day 23 to play Georgia at the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes on Saturday 7 October and has made six changes to his starting 15, including captain Dewi...

Rugby World Cup 2023 Match Preview: Wales v Portugal

6 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Everything you need to know about Wales v Portugal at Stade de Nice, on Saturday, 16 September.     Wales survived a dramatic Fiji fightback in Bordeaux last Sunday, as a Semi Radradra knock-on...

Lake returns as Wales captain - Gatland names team to play Portugal

6 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Wales arrived in Nice from Bordeaux on Monday afternoon and have been preparing for this fixture from their match city training base. Tomos Williams starts at scrum-half to win his 50th cap for Wales....

Steven Kitshoff Overtakes Irish Star as URC Top 100 Leader

6 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Springbok prop Steven Kitshoff has risen to the No 1 spot in the latest update to the URC Top 100 with forward players dominating the upper end of the ‘pound-for-pound’ rankings.   Based...