After the news emerged of the deal before the official announcement, Ospreys players had a stormy meeting with chief executive Lance Bradley where “one or two of the players” walked out early and a full contact training session was cancelled.<\/p>\n
Current Ospreys players – including Wales captains Jac Morgan, Lake and internationals Sam Parry, Dan Edwards and Gareth Thomas – shared a statement, saying they have been “kept in the dark” over the region’s fate.<\/p>\n
“We’re disappointed as players and staff at the way it’s been handled,” said Lake.<\/p>\n
“But the nature of sports sometimes means you can’t always have it your own way.”<\/p>\n
Ospreys were able to focus on the game against Lions and come away with three league points in the high-scoring draw played in atrocious conditions.<\/p>\n
“To turn up and to put that performance on is remarkable,” said Lake.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think many people would have expected something like that to come after a week, where we haven’t trained as much as we usually would and had a couple of difficult meetings during a couple of difficult days.” <\/p>\n
Ospreys supporters protested against their owners and the WRU by turning the lights on their phones in the 11th minute at the Brewery Field.<\/p>\n
“It’s a massive thank you to the fans, people who’ve turned up and supported us throughout the whole week,” said Lake.<\/p>\n
“They’ve stuck with us and it doesn’t go unnoticed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the news emerged of the deal before the official announcement, Ospreys players had a stormy meeting with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-434313","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\/434313","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=434313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}