Welsh rugby's winners and losers as Wales rookie is immense and star endures sad day

Three regions may have lost, the light may have gone out on any hopes of Wales having a representative in the United Rugby Championship play-offs and Wales' Six Nations ended with an anti-climax, but the weekend wasn’t a total wash-out from a Welsh perspective.

There were still a number of outstanding individual efforts. The Ospreys had good cause to be pleased after overpowering their great rivals the Scarlets 54-36 in Swansea. Disappointingly, though, Wales Women couldn’t round off their Six Nations campaign with a success against Italy.

Rugby correspondent Mark Orders runs through the winners and losers:

Wow. Indeed, let’s wow seven times to match the number of defenders the Gloucester wing left for dead in the club’s 64-0 win over Bath. Those with enough energy could even wow 169 times to equal the number of metres Rees-Zammit made in the derby clash at Kingsholm.

The Wales international scored two tries and was unlucky not to complete a hat-trick. Any Gallagher Premiership team of the weekend without him in it wouldn't be worth the paper it’s written on.

More plaudits for the uncapped Welshman, who is having the campaign of his fledgling career as one of the top-performing players in one of European rugby’s top-performing teams. Reffell was to the fore as Leicester Tigers pumped Bristol Bears 56-26 in an English top-flight clash at Welford Road.

Awarding him a nine out of 10 in their player ratings, WalesOnline's sister title LeicestershireLive - who have seen a fair bit of the openside this term - enthused: “The Tigers’ player of the season award is going to be hotly contested and surely Tommy ‘Turnover’ Reffell’s name will be right in the mix.

“He was yet again exceptional, cropping up everywhere on the field —