{"id":581211,"date":"2026-05-13T06:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581211\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:29:12","slug":"united-rugby-championship-who-have-the-welsh-clubs-signed-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581211\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Who have the Welsh clubs signed for 2026-27?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In: After a busy 2025 recruitment drive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/teams\/ng-dragons\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dragons<\/a> are looking to build on a promising campaign with a handful of signings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Filo Tiatia has so far brought in Tonga wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvgjlkdwzkeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anzelo Tuitavuki<\/a> from Colomiers and Caio Parry will have a chance to impress on a dual contract with Pontypool after standing out in Super Rygbi Cymru with RGC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c80m47e07yro\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terrell Peita<\/a>, who made his Super Rugby debut with Blues in May, arrives to bolster a back row that will be hit hard by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c152z5jg01eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the loss of talisman Aaron Wainwright<\/a> to Leicester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Re-signed: Rejuvenated wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ceqw7lv31q1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Dyer<\/a> signed fresh terms along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cy4wr3gvnkpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Che Hope<\/a>, who would have been a leading candidate for Wales&#8217; summer tour were it not for injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c98qvdz0jj8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angus O&#8217;Brien<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clyxng0knd0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Coghlan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5yvj8rkx1no\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Coleman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cy02l285d5vo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Richards<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cv2xxl44w9lo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oli Burrows<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ce8pmpzkm3jo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Screech<\/a> will be back after being key figures in an improved campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Out: Aaron Wainwright (Leicester), James Benjamin, Luke Yendle, Ewan Rosser (Pontypool), Niall Armstrong, George Roberts, Mackenzie Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In: After a busy 2025 recruitment drive, Dragons are looking to build on a promising campaign with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581211","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\/581211","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=581211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}