Wales Head Coach Warren Gatland believes his players need to add more bulk if they are to compete on a level playing field with the world's best.
Welsh elite performance director Graeme Maw is leaving his job after less than five months.
Wales U20 head coach Patrick Horgan has announced his 26-man squad for the forthcoming Junior World Championship, to be staged in Wales in June.
Ryan Jones, speaking from the Welsh training camp in Ireland, has spoken confidently about the forthcoming tour to South Africa, which will pit the Grand Slam Champions against the World Champions.
Warren Gatland's confident proclamation that he would take a full-strength side to South Africa in June is being increasingly undermined by injury.
Wales have been dealt another injury blow with the news that full-back Lee Byrne has been ruled out of the forthcoming tour to South Africa.
Former Wales and Lions centre Mark Taylor has announced that he will hang up his boots at the end of the current season.
Former Wales captain David Pickering has been elected chairman of the Six Nations.
It has been confirmed that Gavin Henson will miss Wales's tour of South Africa after undergoing ankle surgery.
Wales coach Warren Gatland has added to more players to his pre-South Africa tour training camp.
Wales will celebrate 100 years of Test rugby against Australia with an international against the Wallabies in Cardiff this November as part of a four-match series the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) announced on Wednesday.
Wales have announced that Neil Jenkins and Robin McBryde have committed themselves to Warren Gatland's coaching staff until 2011.
Warren Gatland has unveiled a 24-man training squad for a week-long training camp in Ireland as he prepares his squad for the two-Test tour to South Africa in June.
Gavin Henson is likely to miss Wales' forthcoming two-match tour of South Africa after failing to respond to treatment for an ankle ligament injury.
Wales' top try scorer Shane Williams has been granted a testimonial game at the Millennium Stadium, where he will lead a Wales XV against a World XV.