{"id":534620,"date":"2026-04-16T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534620\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:17:08","slug":"matt-salter-remembered-as-one-of-rugbys-all-time-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534620\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Salter remembered as one of rugby&#8217;s &#8216;all-time greats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Hill, former director of Bristol Rugby said: &#8220;He really was a lovely man, he wasn&#8217;t interested in material things he was interested in people and helping them, so many admired him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Brown is the CEO of Gloucester Rugby and a former Bristol and England player. He met Salter in 1999 and they were each other&#8217;s best men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s huge loss not just for the rugby community but the Bristol community,&#8221; said Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He led the team to promotion which was fantastic and continued that not just as a player but a coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that Salter was &#8220;a real builder of people&#8221; by &#8220;wanting the best out of them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Bristol and England rugby player Mark Regan MBE was also at the memorial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On the field he was a warrior and off the field a great friend,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m in awe of the guy and I will miss him severely.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Hill, former director of Bristol Rugby said: &#8220;He really was a lovely man, he wasn&#8217;t interested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534620","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\/534620","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=534620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}