{"id":24689,"date":"2026-01-17T03:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/champions-cup-scarlets-keep-it-simple-in-bid-to-stun-northampton\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:45:26","slug":"champions-cup-scarlets-keep-it-simple-in-bid-to-stun-northampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/champions-cup-scarlets-keep-it-simple-in-bid-to-stun-northampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup: Scarlets keep it simple in bid to stun Northampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Northampton: <\/b>Ramm; Todaro, Freeman, Dingwall (capt), Sleightholme; Belleau, Mitchell; Iyogun, R Smith, Davison, Munga, Van Der Mescht, Kemeny, Graham, Pollock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements: <\/i>Wright, Fischetti, Mills, Lockett, Chick, McParland, Pater, Hendy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scarlets: <\/b>J Davies; Mee, James, Hawkins, Murray; Costelow, A Hughes; Mathias, Elias, H Thomas, Douglas, Ball, Plumtree, Macleod (capt), Anderson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements:<\/i> Van der Merwe, Hepburn, Harri O&#8217;Connor, J Taylor, Davis, G Davies, Page, T Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Referee: <\/b>Kevin Bralley (Fra)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Assistants: <\/b>Vincent Blasco Baque (Fra), Flavien Hourquet (Fra)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">TMO: <\/b>Julien Castaignede (Fra)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clyn855g00lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northampton: Ramm; Todaro, Freeman, Dingwall (capt), Sleightholme; Belleau, Mitchell; Iyogun, R Smith, Davison, Munga, Van Der Mescht, Kemeny, Graham, Pollock. Replacements: Wright, Fischetti, Mills, Lockett, Chick, McParland, Pater, Hendy. Scarlets: J Davies; Mee, James, Hawkins, Murray; Costelow, A Hughes; Mathias, Elias, H Thomas, Douglas, Ball, Plumtree, Macleod (capt), Anderson. Replacements: Van der Merwe, Hepburn, Harri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24689","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\/24689","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=24689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24691,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24689\/revisions\/24691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}