Waratahs new Super Rugby side Fijian Drua on February 18

Ribs legend Jamie Roberts is set for a shock switch into Super Rugby with the Waratahs, as indicated by reports down under and at home.

The Sydney Morning Herald guarantee Roberts will join the New South Wales based side as injury cover for youthful focus Joey Walton, who is out for the season with a knee issue.

The Daily Mail say the move isn't done and cleaned yet report Roberts "is in cutting edge talks and could move before the finish of month, on schedule for the Super Rugby season."

The Dragons man had a short stretch in South Africa with the Stormers before a re-visitation of Welsh rugby, yet this would address another part in his sparkling profession.

Roberts, 35, won 94 covers and played three Tests for the Lions on a rugby venture that saw him in club shades of Cardiff Blues, Racing, Harlequins and Bath, just as the Stormers and Dragons.

He has great recollections of Sydney, having traded Brian O'Driscoll for the unequivocal Lions Test in 2013 and scoring the last attempt as Warren Gatland's men whipped Australia 41-16.

The blockbusting focus has not included for Wales beginning around 2017 and as per a Waratahs official is supposed to be "amped up for investing some energy in Sydney", report the Herald.

He would bring what is considered to be truly necessary experience to a youthful Waratahs backline.

The season starts off for the Waratahs against new Super Rugby side Fijian Drua on February 18. They then, at that point, have games against the Reds and the Brumbies.

The truth will surface eventually whether Roberts is playing for the Aussie outfit, or still with the Dragons by then.

He is under agreement with the Gwent locale and it is not yet clear whether they would concede early delivery from that arrangement on schedule for Roberts to begin the Super Rugby season.

Britain chief and playmaker Owen Farrell could miss the whole Six Nations, report the Telegraph.

Farrell has not played since going through lower leg medical procedure playing for England against Australia in the fall, yet was named for the competition by Eddie Jones prior in the week.

Notwithstanding, he needed to pull out of an arranged rebound for Saracens this end of the week and will see an expert to decide the seriousness of what the paper say is another lower-leg injury supported in preparing.

The Telegraph say the star could be confronting another eight-week lay-off, "tossing Farrell's whole Six Nations into question."

They report a hopeful guess would be a return for the last two England games against Ireland and France in March, yet assuming this is the case Farrell would not have played any rugby since November 13.

The news comes as an immense catastrophe for Jones, who has made Farrell a head honcho. Without a doubt Farrell has played in each and every one of England's 30 Six Nations apparatuses during the Jones time.

In Farrell's nonappearance, Courtney Lawes is tipped to lead England into fight when they meet Scotland at Murrayfield on February 5.

Dwayne Peel communicated his mistake after his Scarlets side were blown away 52-21 by Bristol.

The English side ruled the end quarter to stop the Scarlets' horrible Champions Cup crusade.

For 60 minutes, the west Walians were equitably coordinated with the Gallagher Premiership outfit in a persevering conflict before a breakdown left the scoreline totally unbalanced.

After a mission that has seen a relinquish, a wiping out and a French whipping in Bordeaux, the last quarter appeared to be practically with regards to how things have worked out for the Scarlets side this season.

It left mentor Peel saying: "I'm baffled in light of the fact that at an hour we were in it, however I felt we offered focuses excessively without any problem. We surrendered either the lost start up, a missed tackle, or a helpless exit, and let them back into it.

"I think the illustration for us is that we can't stand to offer focuses simple after we've really buckled down for our places. I'm certain when we think back it, we'll think OK that was better, yet 31 focuses as of now is extreme perusing for us.

"The opposition for us all in all has been cracked, best case scenario. The most recent two weeks have been two beatings, yet we continue on and focus on the URC. We've quite recently got to backpedal on the pony and put things right."

Ridges will see a superior form of Owen Watkin when the middle gets together with Wayne Pivac's crew for the Six Nations.

So figures Ospreys lead trainer Toby Booth after the 26-cap player finished a drawn out outcast from the Test climate with a spot in Pivac's board for the forthcoming title.

It's a choice that has gone under the radar in the midst of the attention on new skipper Dan Biggar, the incorporation of uncapped Jac Morgan, Dewi Lake and James Ratti and discuss avoided players.

However, Booth figures Wales won't lament the choice on Watkin.

"Owen has been one of our most predictable entertainers," said the Ospreys' lead trainer.

"Protectively he's forever been generally excellent, yet he's made upgrades in his assaulting game.

"We're satisfied on the grounds that he's buckled down, following up on the input he's been given, similarly as.

"Playing at 12 permits him to get his hands ready all the more regularly, so positional change has made a difference. He's likewise more brilliant in picking the right line. Rather than simply running directly at individuals he's running at powerless shoulders, which has assisted him with making tackle busts and line-breaks and have more chances to offload through handles. Super Rugby online

"He's become more assault centered, serving Wales and him better and the Ospreys also in light of the fact that we're playing on the front foot."