{"id":441223,"date":"2026-01-27T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:23:07","slug":"former-ospreys-unite-to-call-for-rethink-over-wru-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441223\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ospreys unite to call for &#8216;rethink&#8217; over WRU plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What is being proposed puts at risk the future of professional rugby across Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend and the redevelopment of an historic rugby venue at St Helen&#8217;s,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is also important to recognise how little support these proposals appear to have across the wider Welsh rugby community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In particular, Ospreys and Cardiff supporters are united in their opposition and their concern about the future for their respective teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Ospreys say &#8220;the time is right to speak up&#8221; over the WRU and Y11 plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They say they are willing to meet the union, either individually or collectively, to share their &#8220;experience&#8221; and &#8220;help shape a positive future for Welsh rugby&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What the game needs is confidence, consistency and collaboration &#8211; not constant shifts in direction, where four teams, then two, then three are all presented as the &#8216;optimal&#8217; solution within a single year,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;What is being proposed puts at risk the future of professional rugby across Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-441223","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\/441223","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=441223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}