{"id":53915,"date":"2026-06-04T14:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dan-john-ospreys-recruit-back-after-exeter-exit\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:36:25","slug":"dan-john-ospreys-recruit-back-after-exeter-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dan-john-ospreys-recruit-back-after-exeter-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan John: Ospreys recruit back after Exeter exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Back Dan John will join Ospreys for the 2026-27 season following his departure from Exeter Chiefs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cardiff-born 24-year-old, who is capable of playing at centre and across the back three, joined the Chiefs&#8217; academy in 2020 and went on to make his senior debut in March 2021, coming off the bench in Exeter&#8217;s win over Leicester Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Wales Under-20s cap made 33 appearances for the English Prem side in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited by the prospect of playing for the Ospreys,&#8221; John said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are some quality players in the team and they play some exciting rugby, I think it&#8217;s somewhere that will help me take my game to the next level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve spent so many years at Exeter and I&#8217;m incredibly grateful to the players, coaches and supporters for making my time at the club as good as it was. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to starting this new chapter of my career back in Wales, and I can&#8217;t wait to get started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c62d245z409o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back Dan John will join Ospreys for the 2026-27 season following his departure from Exeter Chiefs. The Cardiff-born 24-year-old, who is capable of playing at centre and across the back three, joined the Chiefs&#8217; academy in 2020 and went on to make his senior debut in March 2021, coming off the bench in Exeter&#8217;s win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[3347,3275,2441,1951,6058,8932],"class_list":["post-53915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-dan","tag-exeter","tag-exit","tag-john","tag-ospreys","tag-recruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915","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=53915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53917,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915\/revisions\/53917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}