{"id":308962,"date":"2025-12-10T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308962\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:01:07","slug":"jac-morgan-and-dewi-lake-wales-captains-in-line-to-leave-ospreys-for-english-prem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308962\/","title":{"rendered":"Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake: Wales captains in line to leave Ospreys for English Prem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should Morgan and Lake depart, the uncertainty in crisis-stricken Welsh rugby will have been a major factor in their decisions.<\/p>\n

Ospreys have said publicly they want to keep the pair,<\/a> who are close friends, but the two players are unsure what the future holds in their homeland.<\/p>\n

Ospreys supporters were told in September Morgan had warned the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) he would leave professional domestic rugby in Wales<\/a> if Ospreys ceased to exist.<\/p>\n

The WRU announced in October<\/a> that it planned to reduce the number of professional men’s sides in Wales from four to three.<\/p>\n

Welsh rugby’s governing body confirmed it proposes to grant three licences for men’s clubs. <\/p>\n

There will be one in Cardiff, one in the east and one in the west, which is expected to result in a straight survival fight between Swansea-based Ospreys and Scarlets in Llanelli.<\/p>\n

Another option that has now emerged is Ospreys owners, Y11 Sport & Media, taking over WRU-owned Cardiff, which could produce the desired number of three professional sides. <\/p>\n

One of the main purposes of the planned reduction in sides in Welsh rugby is to concentrate Welsh talent into three squads. <\/p>\n

But if Lake and Morgan leave, they will be joining top Welsh players like Williams, Louis Rees-Zammit and Dafydd Jenkins who play in England.<\/p>\n

Wales head coach Steve Tandy selected 13 players in the autumn series who plied their club trade in England or France. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should Morgan and Lake depart, the uncertainty in crisis-stricken Welsh rugby will have been a major factor in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-308962","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\/308962","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=308962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}