{"id":24791,"date":"2025-01-08T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dafydd-jenkins-exeters-wales-forward-worthy-of-british-lions-call-up\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:25:24","slug":"dafydd-jenkins-exeters-wales-forward-worthy-of-british-lions-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dafydd-jenkins-exeters-wales-forward-worthy-of-british-lions-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Dafydd Jenkins: Exeter&#8217;s Wales forward worthy of British Lions call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Exeter boss Rob Baxter says Wales lock Dafydd Jenkins is good enough for a British and Irish Lions call-up.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old missed the autumn internationals after undergoing knee and shoulder surgery in the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He returned to action last month and has started Exeter&#8217;s last three Premiership matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenkins captained Wales in last year&#8217;s Six Nations and played in all five of their games at the last World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lions tour Australia this summer with the first Test in Brisbane on 19 July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s getting through an awful lot of hard work, and he&#8217;ll know himself, he just wants to add a little bit more accuracy to it, and making sure he makes good decisions, doesn&#8217;t just overwork and get into things he doesn&#8217;t need to get into,&#8221; Baxter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But his attitude to playing, to training, to where he wants the team to be, what he expects from the players around him is absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would fully expect him to have a very good Six Nations. In my opinion he&#8217;s a guy who will be a Lion, he will be, it&#8217;s whether it&#8217;s now, whether it&#8217;s this tour, whether it&#8217;s another tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be fair he&#8217;s got plenty time, he could go on a Lions tour in three tours time and still be in his prime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For me he&#8217;s one of the guys in our team and in our pack that my ambition is to build a very good team around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cz6l6p1299vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exeter boss Rob Baxter says Wales lock Dafydd Jenkins is good enough for a British and Irish Lions call-up. The 22-year-old missed the autumn internationals after undergoing knee and shoulder surgery in the summer. He returned to action last month and has started Exeter&#8217;s last three Premiership matches. Jenkins captained Wales in last year&#8217;s Six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24793,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24791\/revisions\/24793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}