Jenkins recalls old heads

12 April 2012

Wales head coach Gareth Jenkins has recalled experienced trio Stephen Jones, Gareth Thomas and Colin Charvis for Saturday's pivotal World Cup clash with Australia in Cardiff.

Jones returns at fly-half in place of James Hook, who drops to the bench, while Thomas replaces Kevin Morgan at full-back and regains the captaincy.

Charvis is preferred in the back-row ahead of Alix Popham and packs down at blind-side flanker, with Jonathan Thomas switching to number eight.

The three senior players, who share 251 caps between them, came off the bench last weekend and helped turn the game as Wales hit back from 17-9 down to open their World Cup with a 42-17 win over Canada.

A victory for Wales would boost their chances of finishing top of Pool B and earning a quarter-final against struggling England rather than the dangerous South Africans.

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in