{"id":333161,"date":"2025-12-07T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333161\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:59:08","slug":"champions-cup-scarlets-belong-among-europes-elite-says-dwayne-peel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333161\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup: Scarlets belong among Europe&#8217;s elite, says Dwayne Peel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a late charge into last season&#8217;s United Rugby Championship (URC) play-offs, Scarlets have endured a miserable start to this campaign with defeats to Munster, Stormers, Lions and Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But an impressive victory over Glasgow and the return to fitness of key players such as Josh Macleod, Ryan Elias and Max Douglas could prove to be a turning point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I genuinely believe that we&#8217;ve taken steps forward over the last two games,&#8221; said Peel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the last month we&#8217;ve worked hard and a one-point game could have gone either way, we could easily have been sitting in here celebrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re getting better undoubtedly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were here to compete and if we keep doing that we&#8217;re putting ourselves in with a chance, that&#8217;s what the game is all about really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlets will need to compete well next weekend as they travel to France to take on reigning European champions Bordeaux-Begles, before three festive URC derbies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a late charge into last season&#8217;s United Rugby Championship (URC) play-offs, Scarlets have endured a miserable start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-333161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333161","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=333161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}