{"id":7100,"date":"2024-11-20T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/celtic-challenge-festive-derbies-to-kick-off-competition-in-wales\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:02:33","slug":"celtic-challenge-festive-derbies-to-kick-off-competition-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/celtic-challenge-festive-derbies-to-kick-off-competition-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Challenge: Festive derbies to kick off competition in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gwalia Lightning coach Catrina Nicholas-Mclaughlin said: &#8220;To have a Welsh derby to kick off the new Celtic Challenge campaign will focus the minds of both sets of players and coaches on the first weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cBoth teams have one win each from last season and there is always an extra edge when you play against another Welsh team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brython Thunder coach Ashley Beck said: &#8220;We all know each other, and these are the games that you always look for when the fixtures are announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cGwalia caught us cold in the first fixture last season, but we were deserved winners in the return game at Parc y Scarlets in the final game of the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">You can find the full Celtic Challenge fixtures <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/celticrugbycomp.com\/fixtures-results\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">here.<\/i><span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cgr0p1wwxlro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwalia Lightning coach Catrina Nicholas-Mclaughlin said: &#8220;To have a Welsh derby to kick off the new Celtic Challenge campaign will focus the minds of both sets of players and coaches on the first weekend. \u201cBoth teams have one win each from last season and there is always an extra edge when you play against another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","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\/7100","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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}