Ospreys will not see Lake for the United Rugby Championship (URC) run-in or the European Challenge Cup campaign.<\/p>\n
This continues with a last-16 away tie against Ulster in Belfast on Saturday with Sam Parry, Lewis Lloyd and Efan Daniels battling it out for hooker duties.<\/p>\n
Ospreys fans will not see Lake again before he switches to Kingsholm next season with Jones praising his influence.<\/p>\n
“Sport is cruel sometimes and does not always give you the dream ending that you want,” said Jones.<\/p>\n
“You just have to deal with the cards that you are dealt. Dewi can look back at his time with Ospreys very fondly.<\/p>\n
“I kept in touch with him when he was away with Wales during the Six Nations.<\/p>\n
“The way he conducted himself in difficult circumstances at the start of the tournament, off the back of some fairly big news off the pitch in Wales, was first-class.<\/p>\n
“The way he shouldered that burden and dealt with it, not shying away from the responsibility. and the way he handled that on and off the pitch was great.<\/p>\n
“His performances, especially towards the end of the tournament were very strong and he was leading with his words and his actions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ospreys will not see Lake for the United Rugby Championship (URC) run-in or the European Challenge Cup campaign.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-509279","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\/509279","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=509279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}