{"id":11542,"date":"2026-01-12T07:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11542"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:13:17","slug":"wales-rugby-crisis-cardiff-fans-warn-wru-against-ospreys-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11542","title":{"rendered":"Wales rugby crisis: Cardiff fans warn WRU against Ospreys takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cardiff supporters have told the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) they do not favour their side being bought by owners of rivals Ospreys.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2ww03epd1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">were taken over by the WRU<\/a> after temporarily going into administration in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the governing body expecting to sell the organisation to new investors in the next few weeks final bids are required by Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys&#8217; owners, Y11 Sport &amp; Media, have been linked with taking over Cardiff to eventually form one professional side &#8211; an outcome which would help the WRU achieve its goal of culling a Welsh professional men&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WRU and Y11 have both declined to comment on the possibility, fuelling fears of Ospreys&#8217; supporters about their side&#8217;s future, while Cardiff fans have been vocal on social media against any such proposed takeover deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Independent Cardiff supporters group, CF10 Rugby Trust, have outlined fears about their club being associated with Ospreys disappearing from Welsh rugby&#8217;s professional scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have met with the WRU and we told them we think whoever owns Cardiff, it should be a positive for Cardiff rugby and not a negative for Welsh rugby as a whole,&#8221; CF10 chair Lynn Glaister told BBC Radio Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Another owner of another club taking us over would see Cardiff branded as the team who killed off another team for ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c62rz27n17xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff supporters have told t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}