{"id":10685,"date":"2025-02-15T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rugby-has-lost-its-soul-in-wales-robin-mcbryde\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:00:38","slug":"rugby-has-lost-its-soul-in-wales-robin-mcbryde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rugby-has-lost-its-soul-in-wales-robin-mcbryde\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby has lost its soul in Wales \u2013 Robin McBryde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde fears that rugby has lost its soul in Wales and calls the situation &#8216;very sad&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Wales, and British and Irish Lions, hooker worked under Warren Gatland, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cg57nqegll9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">left his role as head coach<\/a> by mutual agreement earlier this week after a run of 14 Tests without a win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McBryde, who is now Leinster assistant coach, was speaking to Scrum V after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cn014e84dy1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">his side&#8217;s 22-19 victory over Ospreys<\/a> in Swansea on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Watch more:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/videos\/cx248en3n42o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Scrum V highlights &#8211; Ospreys 19-22 Leinster<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/videos\/cr46gwl9eyeo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde fears that rugby has lost its soul in Wales and calls the situation &#8216;very sad&#8217;. The former Wales, and British and Irish Lions, hooker worked under Warren Gatland, who left his role as head coach by mutual agreement earlier this week after a run of 14 Tests without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10687,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions\/10687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}