{"id":20450,"date":"2025-09-29T23:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-bristol-wing-ready-for-wales-return-says-alex-cuthbert\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:45:15","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-bristol-wing-ready-for-wales-return-says-alex-cuthbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/louis-rees-zammit-bristol-wing-ready-for-wales-return-says-alex-cuthbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit: Bristol wing ready for Wales return, says Alex Cuthbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cuthbert believes Rees-Zammit is excelling after trying life in NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is only going to benefit from coming back into rugby,&#8221; said Cuthbert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has been in a high performance environment and knows exactly what it takes to play at this level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has played rugby his whole life and has only been away 18 months, the game has not changed an awful lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has probably come back more experienced and professional. He was pretty laid back, but now he seems way more dedicated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has probably opened his mind to a different way of seeing the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wales fly-half James Hook says Rees-Zammit has something his Welsh rivals don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has that X-factor, that point of difference,&#8221; said Hook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You see some of the tries he scored before he left and since he has came back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be fair, Wales&#8217; back three have not done too bad with the likes of Tom Rogers, Blair Murray and Ellis Mee, but Zammit is just something a little bit different, with that little bit of class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He also puts people in stadiums and bums on seats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c9qndj14125o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuthbert believes Rees-Zammit is excelling after trying life in NFL. &#8220;He is only going to benefit from coming back into rugby,&#8221; said Cuthbert. &#8220;He has been in a high performance environment and knows exactly what it takes to play at this level. &#8220;He has played rugby his whole life and has only been away 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20450","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\/20450","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=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20452,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions\/20452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}