{"id":559517,"date":"2026-03-23T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559517\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:24:08","slug":"welsh-rugby-crisis-deadline-for-cardiff-buy-out-extended-to-after-wru-egm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559517\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh rugby crisis: Deadline for Cardiff buy-out extended to after WRU EGM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ospreys owners Y11 Sport & Media have an extra 30 days to negotiate their proposed takeover of Cardiff.<\/p>\n

The initial period of exclusivity to negotiate the deal has expired with the deadline extended by the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) to Wednesday, 22 April.<\/p>\n

That is nine days after WRU chair Richard Collier-Keywood faces a vote of no confidence<\/a> at an extraordinary general meeting of the governing body.<\/p>\n

Leading figures at one of the WRU’s districts – Central Glamorgan Rugby Union (CGRU) – received backing<\/a> to call the meeting.<\/p>\n

Clubs will also vote on how the four council members who sit on the WRU board are decided, despite the current members being re-voted on as recently as last autumn.<\/p>\n

Calls for the EGM followed the WRU’s contentious plans<\/a> to cut the number of Welsh professional teams from four to three by June 2027.<\/p>\n

In a statement the WRU said it had “confirmed Ospreys owners Y11 as its preferred bidder for Cardiff Rugby on 22 January with an initial 60-day period of commercial exclusivity<\/a> to negotiate terms put in place”.<\/p>\n

The statement added: “A unanimous decision was taken by the WRU board to initially choose Y11 as the preferred bidder for Cardiff Rugby and negotiations have been taking place since that time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ospreys owners Y11 Sport & Media have an extra 30 days to negotiate their proposed takeover of Cardiff.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-559517","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\/559517","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=559517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}