{"id":286530,"date":"2025-11-27T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286530\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:01:10","slug":"jac-morgan-wales-captain-to-miss-start-of-six-nations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286530\/","title":{"rendered":"Jac Morgan: Wales captain to miss start of Six Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan is out of contract with Ospreys at the end of the 2025-26 season, and previously said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3dr0j8r0lro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> he would leave professional rugby in Wales<\/a> if they fold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) wants to do away with one of the four regions by keeping just one in the west, effectively putting Scarlets and Ospreys at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones says there has been &#8220;lots of good news&#8221; around player signings, with Keelan Giles the latest to sign a deal, but Morgan and fellow Wales captain Dewi Lake have yet to commit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have been quite clear that they are not going to be rushed into making decisions,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They, like a lot of us, are waiting to hear what the plans are longer term and then they can make some more informed decisions and I fully respect that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve made our stance clear, we are speaking to both of them and have offers in front of both of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to respect that they&#8217;re focused on other things at the moment but as soon as we can get into deeper conversations, we&#8217;ll be looking to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan is out of contract with Ospreys at the end of the 2025-26 season, and previously said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-286530","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\/286530","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=286530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}