{"id":50315,"date":"2026-04-10T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mason-grady-wales-centre-signs-new-cardiff-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:24:09","slug":"mason-grady-wales-centre-signs-new-cardiff-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mason-grady-wales-centre-signs-new-cardiff-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Grady: Wales centre signs new Cardiff deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On a personal level, I feel this is the best environment for me to continue my development,&#8221; Grady added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had some set-backs with injuries but feel like I&#8217;m getting back to my best and it&#8217;s about consistently improving and putting my game on the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff head coach Corniel van Zyl said they were happy to keep an academy product at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a local boy who has come through the ranks and cares deeply about the club,&#8221; said the South African.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s obviously had a few setbacks with injuries recently but he has come back from them well. There was a bit of expectation on him at the beginning, but he settled back nicely and has found some good form in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His game is definitely growing, he is highly motivated to continue improving and we are excited to see where he can go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With his size, pace and power, he has an athletic ability and attributes that are rare in Wales, while his basics are improving every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cg54mjve39no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On a personal level, I feel this is the best environment for me to continue my development,&#8221; Grady added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had some set-backs with injuries but feel like I&#8217;m getting back to my best and it&#8217;s about consistently improving and putting my game on the pitch.&#8221; Cardiff head coach Corniel van Zyl said they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1251,579,449,14564,13884,378,312],"class_list":["post-50315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-cardiff","tag-centre","tag-deal","tag-grady","tag-mason","tag-signs","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50315","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=50315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50317,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50315\/revisions\/50317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}