{"id":33908,"date":"2025-07-29T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ioan-nicholas-scarlets-versatile-back-signs-new-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:58:58","slug":"ioan-nicholas-scarlets-versatile-back-signs-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ioan-nicholas-scarlets-versatile-back-signs-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ioan Nicholas: Scarlets versatile back signs new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Utility back Ioan Nicholas has extended his stay Scarlets by signing a new contract.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicholas has made 110 Scarlets appearances and can play full-back, wing or centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old joins Macs Page, Tomi Lewis, Eddie James, Joe Roberts, Sam Costelow, Kemsley Mathias, Taine Plumtree, Johnny Williams and Sam O&#8217;Connor in signing new senior deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlets have also signed Wales internationals Jake Ball and Joe Hawkins, scrum-half Dane Blacker, back-rower Tristan Davies and Welsh-qualified England U20s full-back Ioan Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steff Evans, Ioan Lloyd, Charlie Titcombe, Efan Jones, Sam Wainwright, Shaun Evans, Vaea Fifita, Alex Craig, Morgan Jones and Ed Scragg have left the Llanelli-based side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cqxgwwz44xqo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utility back Ioan Nicholas has extended his stay Scarlets by signing a new contract. Nicholas has made 110 Scarlets appearances and can play full-back, wing or centre. The 27-year-old joins Macs Page, Tomi Lewis, Eddie James, Joe Roberts, Sam Costelow, Kemsley Mathias, Taine Plumtree, Johnny Williams and Sam O&#8217;Connor in signing new senior deals. Scarlets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[449,11177,4825,8067,378,11178],"class_list":["post-33908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-deal","tag-ioan","tag-nicholas","tag-scarlets","tag-signs","tag-versatile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33910,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33908\/revisions\/33910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}