{"id":176881,"date":"2025-10-03T06:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176881\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:42:09","slug":"welsh-rugby-union-dave-reddin-says-two-team-option-still-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176881\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Rugby Union: Dave Reddin says two-team option ‘still on the table’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The players have been among the most vocal in response to the two-team suggestion.<\/p>\n

The Welsh Rugby Players Association (WRPA) has told the WRU its proposals for the elite men’s game would “drive talent to leave Wales” and made it clear it did not agree with its “optimal solution”.<\/p>\n

“We’ve heard those voices loud and clear, the players’ voices, we’ve met with players several times now,” said Reddin.<\/p>\n

“Their voice is central to this as, as is the fans. <\/p>\n

“It would be easy to say the players don’t like it so it can’t be this, this and this.<\/p>\n

“Respectfully, the players are a massively important voice but they are not a uniformed voice.<\/p>\n

“There are different people in that group who have vastly different ambitions and needs from a system. That’s not a homogenous opinion.”<\/p>\n

Wales captain Jac Morgan told the WRU<\/a> unless he would leave Welsh professional club rugby if he was not playing for Ospreys.<\/p>\n

“I have spoken to Jac, he is clearly one of our most precious talents,” said Reddin.<\/p>\n

“He is somebody we will be desperate to keep in Wales. Jac is an ambitious player and I respect absolutely where he is coming from in respect of the Ospreys.<\/p>\n

“What we want to create is a system that turns Welsh players’ heads and says ‘I would love to stay here, almost regardless of what the name on the door says, because it is the best system for me and one I can thrive, win and feel connected to my national identity and where I can help my national team develop’. <\/p>\n

“I hope through continued conversations with people like Jac we can build something that is super attractive to him and others so they want to stay.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The players have been among the most vocal in response to the two-team suggestion. The Welsh Rugby Players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-176881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}