{"id":801807,"date":"2026-10-14T01:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801807\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T01:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:06:12","slug":"kieran-hardy-wales-and-ospreys-scrum-half-suffers-lengthy-injury-blow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801807\/","title":{"rendered":"Kieran Hardy: Wales and Ospreys scrum-half suffers lengthy injury blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Tomos Williams was the first choice for Wales at scrum-half in the 2026 Six Nations, Hardy was cemented as his number two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was in the matchday squad for all five games, replacing the Gloucester man in three of them, and was almost certain to feature again when Tandy&#8217;s side take on Japan on Saturday, 7 November in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But given his lay-off is likely to be prolonged, not only will the former Scarlets player miss the international games this autumn, but he also appears a serious doubt for next year&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That may pave the way for Ospreys team-mate Reuben Morgan-Williams, but is also likely to increase calls for Gareth Davies to reverse his international retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old scrum-half sparked a Scarlets comeback from 21-7 down to beat Benetton on Saturday, leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/crq8nyy254y3o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ex-Wales hooker Scott Baldwin to back him to play<\/a> in next year&#8217;s Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies retired from Test rugby in 2024, having won 77 caps for his country and scored 17 tries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Tomos Williams was the first choice for Wales at scrum-half in the 2026 Six Nations, Hardy was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801807","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\/801807","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=801807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}