{"id":4781,"date":"2024-09-19T00:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T00:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ben-thomas-relaxed-over-cardiff-v-wales-position-split\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T00:21:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T00:21:44","slug":"ben-thomas-relaxed-over-cardiff-v-wales-position-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ben-thomas-relaxed-over-cardiff-v-wales-position-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Thomas relaxed over Cardiff v Wales position split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff head coach Matt Sherratt has been clear he sees Thomas as an inside centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But despite the competition, Thomas welcomes the return of Cardiff-born Sheedy from 10 years at Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair know each other well having attended the same high school, Corpus Christi, and played for the same youth team, St Peter&#8217;s, in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheedy was also in the starting Wales team when Thomas made his debut against Canada in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to have Sheeds back. He hasn&#8217;t changed at all, he still just as loud as when we were in school,&#8221; said Thomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s very good for us. He&#8217;s wise beyond his years, talks well and understands the game well. That&#8217;s just the sort of addition we needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We played an exciting brand of rugby last season but you need to win. So we need to work on the basics to give that solid platform and control the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cd98n415xepo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff head coach Matt Sherratt has been clear he sees Thomas as an inside centre. But despite the competition, Thomas welcomes the return of Cardiff-born Sheedy from 10 years at Bristol. The pair know each other well having attended the same high school, Corpus Christi, and played for the same youth team, St Peter&#8217;s, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","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\/4781","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=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}