{"id":35069,"date":"2026-09-17T06:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ospreylia-how-the-ospreys-turned-to-australia-in-summer-recruitment-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:29:22","slug":"ospreylia-how-the-ospreys-turned-to-australia-in-summer-recruitment-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ospreylia-how-the-ospreys-turned-to-australia-in-summer-recruitment-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ospreylia: How the Ospreys turned to Australia in summer recruitment drive"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ospreys will be “stoked” if the new quartet make an impact like Smith did in his first season.<\/p>\n

Wales might also be watching with interest after the signing of former Wallabies captain Wright.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old has won six caps but, courtesy of his grandfather from Pembroke, will be eligible to play for Steve Tandy’s side next summer.<\/p>\n

That opens up the possibility of Wright targeting a World Cup spot, but the forward is concentrating on Ospreys after injury torment since a shoulder blow suffered playing against Wales in 2024.<\/p>\n

“I know that I want to get myself back playing good enough footie and consistent enough footie to push for international honours again,” he told Scrum V.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always imagined that for Australia, I didn’t come over here because of the Welsh heritage and trying to flip.<\/p>\n

“But given my journey, it would be irresponsible to try and think too far ahead. I want to play good footie for Ospreys and put a lot of minutes under my belt, making sure that I am loving footie again.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Ospreys will be “stoked” if the new quartet make an impact like Smith did in his first season. Wales might also be watching with interest after the signing of former Wallabies captain Wright. The 28-year-old has won six caps but, courtesy of his grandfather from Pembroke, will be eligible to play for Steve Tandy’s side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35069","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\/35069","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=35069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35071,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions\/35071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}