'If you're good enough, you're old enough'- Dan Edwards reacts to first Wales start in Cardiff

Monday, 10 November 2025 at 12:00

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byHarry Tovey

For the first time as a Wales international, Ospreys Dan Edwards started at Principality Stadium. He’s a player who’s yet to be the finished article, but on Sunday afternoon showed promising signs.

Since Dan Biggar retired after the 2023 Rugby World Cup, the 10 jersey has seen Wales struggle to find a successor—the 22-year-old in patches controlled the hosts’ attack well against a strong Argentinian outfit.

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But he’s still got room for improvement in that area. For Edwards, Steve Tandy has seemingly made his intentions clear by starting him ahead of Jarrod Evans and Callum Sheedy.

Both are more experienced and have played international rugby in the Welsh capital. Along with tries from Tomos Williams, Dewi Lake, Jac Morgan, and Blair Murray, the young fly-half remained 100% from the tee.

“To be fair, I just do my bit in like my role well, and little things like (experience) fall into place,” began Edwards.

“The boys around helped me a lot. I’m still young, but that’s not an excuse anymore.

“In my opinion, if you’re good enough, you’re old enough (to play senior rugby).

“So I think it’s a real positive time for us and we’re looking forward instead of lips on the floor.”

The Ospreys player made his debut for Wales in Paris back in January, and despite still being a work in progress, his potential is exceptionally high.

“It was my first home game, I loved it,” continued Edwards.

“Loved the experience, loved the atmosphere. Just a little moment in there where there was a lapse in concentration could’ve gone a different way.

“We’ll build over that, with that being our first game under Steve. Hopefully, we’ll build on that over the next few weeks.”

With head coach Tandy’s reign beginning with a bruising record defeat against Argentina. This result means it’s been 827 days since Wales won a Test match in Cardiff.

Not the start Tandy would’ve wanted, but was probably expecting after Wales’ recent form.

For Edwards, however, who was covering as scrum half with Tomos Williams yellow carded, he almost scored a brilliant solo try but was denied with a tap tackle. “I thought I was in there, he (Geronimo Prisciantell) caught my stud, I think.

“It was a good tackle weren’t it, to be fair to him, he hit me clean,” he added.

Wales face Japan next week in the pair's third meeting of the year, after drawing the summer Test series in the Far East. This is before facing the daunting tasks of New Zealand and South Africa to end the Autumn campaign.

“Six-day turnaround," said Edwards.

"With the results out there in the summer against Japan, they were positive, but they are a good team, and I expect a really good challenge next week.

"We want to put our game on the field again and win next week.

“We’ve had two weeks together, if you really think about it. Eight sessions.

“We produced a lot of good stuff out there, and hopefully over the next coming weeks we can get better, click a lot better as an attacking unit.

"We are here now at home, and we want to show everyone how we can play and that we are going to win."