{"id":11978,"date":"2025-03-16T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wru-must-cut-a-region-to-solve-welsh-rugby-crisis-sam-warburton\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:00:02","slug":"wru-must-cut-a-region-to-solve-welsh-rugby-crisis-sam-warburton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wru-must-cut-a-region-to-solve-welsh-rugby-crisis-sam-warburton\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;WRU must cut a region to solve Welsh rugby crisis&#8217; &#8211; Sam Warburton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wales captain Sam Warburton says the Welsh Rugby Union must cut one of the four Welsh regions in a bid to solve a crisis that has seen the national side suffer 17 Test defeats in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2g3vlzx4ko\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Where can Welsh rugby possibly go from here?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/iplayer\/episode\/m0029339\/six-nations-rugby-2025-rugby-special-fifth-weekend\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Watch Six Nations Rugby Special on BBC iPlayer.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/videos\/c1enqde0l8qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wales captain Sam Warburton says the Welsh Rugby Union must cut one of the four Welsh regions in a bid to solve a crisis that has seen the national side suffer 17 Test defeats in a row. READ MORE: Where can Welsh rugby possibly go from here? Watch Six Nations Rugby Special on BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11978","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\/11978","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=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11980,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions\/11980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}