{"id":2346,"date":"2025-12-10T13:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:34:58","slug":"jac-morgan-and-dewi-lake-wales-captains-in-line-to-leave-ospreys-for-english-prem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake: Wales captains in line to leave Ospreys for English Prem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should Morgan and Lake depart, the uncertainty in crisis-stricken Welsh rugby will have been a major factor in their decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys have said publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ce8471y968go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">they want to keep the pair,<\/a> who are close friends, but the two players are unsure what the future holds in their homeland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys supporters were told in September Morgan had warned the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3dr0j8r0lro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">leave professional domestic rugby in Wales<\/a> if Ospreys ceased to exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WRU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cze61rw12rko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">announced in October<\/a> that it planned to reduce the number of professional men&#8217;s sides in Wales from four to three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh rugby&#8217;s governing body confirmed it proposes to grant three licences for men&#8217;s clubs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be one in Cardiff, one in the east and one in the west, which is expected to result in a straight survival fight between Swansea-based Ospreys and Scarlets in Llanelli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another option that has now emerged is Ospreys owners, Y11 Sport &amp; Media, taking over WRU-owned Cardiff, which could produce the desired number of three professional sides. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the main purposes of the planned reduction in sides in Welsh rugby is to concentrate Welsh talent into three squads. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But if Lake and Morgan leave, they will be joining top Welsh players like Williams, Louis Rees-Zammit and Dafydd Jenkins who play in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales head coach Steve Tandy selected 13 players in the autumn series who plied their club trade in England or France. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cd0k7pk9n72o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Morgan and Lake depart,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2347,"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\/2346"}],"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=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}