{"id":441748,"date":"2026-02-23T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441748\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:20:10","slug":"2026-six-nations-wales-release-nine-players-and-rhys-davies-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441748\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Six Nations: Wales release nine players and Rhys Davies ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Thomas is among nine players released by Wales to the regions for the next round of the United Rugby Championship (URC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas started the Six Nations for Wales against England but was dropped for the following matches against France and Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Josh Macleod was another starter at the Allianz Stadium, Twickenham to be released from the squad this week as the Six Nations takes a break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However Rhys Davies has been ruled out of the rest of the championship after damaging an ankle during training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ospreys lock was a late call up after missing out on selection for the original 38-strong squad, but did not feature in the opening three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Thomas is among nine players released by Wales to the regions for the next round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-441748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441748","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=441748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}