{"id":58140,"date":"2025-08-11T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58140\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:32:08","slug":"fears-over-scotland-women-contracts-as-star-not-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58140\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears over Scotland Women contracts as star &#8216;not happy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The claim was made by wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlandrugbynews.com\/topics\/rhona-lloyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rhona Lloyd<\/a>, who said \u201ca lot has to be done\u201d regarding professional women\u2019s rugby in Scotland. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last month, captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlandrugbynews.com\/topics\/rachel-malcolm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rachel Malcolm<\/a> said contract talks with Scottish Rugby have been \u201cdisruptive\u201d to the squad ahead of the tournament. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the squad announcement last Thursday, Malcolm said those talks had finished, but stopped short of saying they had reached a satisfactory agreement. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But Lloyd opened up on the frustration of the talks with Scottish Rugby\u2019s hierarchy. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Currently, all 32 players in the World Cup squad have professional contracts until the end of the tournament, but the winger said that is set to be dramatically reduced following the World Cup. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI&#8217;m not happy with the contractual situation for the squad,\u201d Lloyd said. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere&#8217;s a lot of the squad that are going into this World Cup &#8211; more than half the squad that are not coming out of it with contracts. That&#8217;s a lot of pressure to put on a player to perform under, not knowing if you&#8217;ve got a job in the following months. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI totally support everything that Rachel [Malcolm] said previously in the media. I think she spoke really well of that.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lloyd\u2019s own future is secure, with the 28-year-old returning to the UK from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlandrugbynews.com\/topics\/france-national-rugby-union-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">France<\/a> and signing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlandrugbynews.com\/topics\/sale-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sale Sharks<\/a>. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added: \u201cI do have a contract for Scotland next season. But yeah, aside from my personal circumstance, not happy the squad aren&#8217;t all in that place.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But for those less fortunate, Lloyd admitted it has been a distraction ahead of the World Cup. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was absolutely disruptive for them,\u201d she said. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cYou look at the best teams in the world, they&#8217;re contracting, a lot of their contracts are running until next June, which takes the disruption out of the World Cup year. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think it has been disruptive for this to happen during our World Cup pre-season, which is the biggest tournament of our lives. \u201c\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Scottish Rugby spokesperson said the more than half figure was inaccurate but wouldn\u2019t give specific details out of respect to players still in the contact discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The claim was made by wing Rhona Lloyd, who said \u201ca lot has to be done\u201d regarding professional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-58140","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\/58140","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=58140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}