{"id":206408,"date":"2025-10-11T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206408\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:26:08","slug":"cardiff-and-wales-lock-teddy-williams-suffers-serious-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206408\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff and Wales lock Teddy Williams suffers serious ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The loss of Williams, who was the club&#8217;s player of the season in 2024-25, is a huge blow for Cardiff after their encouraging start to this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Josh McNally, George Nott, Ben Donnell and Rory Thornton are second-row options along with academy prospect Tom Cottle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blue and Blacks finish the first block of the URC with a trip to Dragons and home fixture against Edinburgh before a break for the autumn internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams won his eighth cap in July&#8217;s win against Japan and would have been a leading contender to be in Steve Tandy&#8217;s first squad for the autumn Tests against Argentina, the Brave Blossoms, New Zealand and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales used Dafydd Jenkins, Will Rowlands, Freddie Thomas, Ben Carter, James Ratti and Williams in the second row last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The loss of Williams, who was the club&#8217;s player of the season in 2024-25, is a huge blow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-206408","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\/206408","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=206408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}