{"id":18829,"date":"2025-07-24T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18829\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:35:07","slug":"welsh-rugby-who-is-signed-or-leaving-regions-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18829\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh rugby: Who is signed or leaving regions for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In: Dragons have comfortably been the busiest of the Welsh sides with 13 senior signings after a miserable season when they finished bottom of the URC with just one win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tight-head prop Dillon Lewis will hunt a Wales recall after coming home from Harlequins, while 2021 British and Irish Lions squad loose-head Wyn Jones also arrives from the Twickenham Stoop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lock Seb Davies, flanker Thomas Young and fly-half Tinus de Beer make the short trip from Cardiff along with number eight Mackenzie Martin, who is initially on a season-long loan after struggling for game time at the Arms Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales Under-20s captain and flanker Harry Beddall will step up to senior rugby after switching from Leicester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South African tight-head prop Robert Hunt arrives from Cheetahs and well-travelled lock Levi Douglas, who is Welsh-qualified and was at Biarritz last season, joins the options in the second row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hope is that Tongan backs Fetuli Paea and Fine Inisi will add firepower in midfield and on the wing after signing from Zebre Parma and Moana Pasifika.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-half Jac Lloyd and utility back David Richards are rewarded for helping Newport to the Super Rygbi Cymru title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Out: Jordan Williams, Ashton Hewitt, Harry Wilson, Scott Williams, Will Reed, Lloyd Evans, Josh Thomas, Dane Blacker, Josh Reynolds, Paula Latu, Dmitri Arhip, George Nott, Joe Davies, Dan Lydiate, Taine Basham, George Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In: Dragons have comfortably been the busiest of the Welsh sides with 13 senior signings after a miserable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-18829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}