{"id":20108,"date":"2025-09-22T04:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/max-llewellyn-wales-centre-reaps-rewards-of-gloucester-move\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:38:23","slug":"max-llewellyn-wales-centre-reaps-rewards-of-gloucester-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/max-llewellyn-wales-centre-reaps-rewards-of-gloucester-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Llewellyn: Wales centre reaps rewards of Gloucester move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move to England has made Llewellyn a potentially leading contender to be a key figure under Tandy after a stop-start international career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c20g78g46yvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">After missing out under Warren Gatland<\/a>, the centre was given a late call up to the 2025 Six Nations by caretaker boss Matt Sherratt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started against Ireland, Scotland and England only for the hamstring injury to deny him a place on the tour to Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now he aims to provide Tandy with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c789exwd0peo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">physical, dominant midfield option at the start of a &#8220;new beginning&#8221; for the national team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will be judged on my physicality, whether in attack or defence, with the size that I am,&#8221; said 6ft 3ins and 16st 4lbs Llewellyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s how well I can get over the gain line or stop it on the other side of the ball, but I&#8217;d like to think I can do a bit more than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are so expansive at Gloucester and you end up getting a lot of opportunities. That&#8217;s really exciting because you know there will be chances, you just have to be one of the players that works hard enough to get on the end of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2rr3d945zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move to England has made Llewellyn a potentially leading contender to be a key figure under Tandy after a stop-start international career. After missing out under Warren Gatland, the centre was given a late call up to the 2025 Six Nations by caretaker boss Matt Sherratt. He started against Ireland, Scotland and England only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108","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=20108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20110,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions\/20110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}