{"id":683620,"date":"2026-05-20T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:35:10","slug":"lloyd-williams-wales-scrum-half-to-retire-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683620\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Williams: Wales scrum-half to retire at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a fantastic year here at Worcester, it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m really proud of and will look back with a lot of fond memories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fact that this year will be my lasting memory of professional sport as a player is seriously special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams is the son of former Wales and British and Irish Lions scrum-half Brynmor, and like his father played the bulk of his club career for Cardiff. Williams&#8217; brother Tom also played professionally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After making his Cardiff debut against Leinster in 2010 as a 21-year-old, Williams went on to make 261 appearances for the Blue and Blacks, bagging 42 tries in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While at Cardiff, he won the European Challenge Cup in 2018 as well as captaining the side on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams was one of seven Wales internationals to leave Cardiff after the end of the 2022-23 season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/65756212\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joining Ealing Trailfinders<\/a> for two seasons before finishing his career with Worcester Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Worcester play his former club Ealing on Saturday in the Elior Champ Rugby semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a fantastic year here at Worcester, it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m really proud of and will look back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-683620","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\/683620","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=683620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}