{"id":8345,"date":"2024-12-19T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alun-lawrence-cardiff-number-eight-signs-new-long-term-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:19:11","slug":"alun-lawrence-cardiff-number-eight-signs-new-long-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alun-lawrence-cardiff-number-eight-signs-new-long-term-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alun Lawrence: Cardiff number eight signs new long-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cardiff number eight Alun Lawrence has been given a new long-term contract to stay at the Arms Park.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lawrence, 26, returned to Cardiff during the 2023-24 season following the demise of Jersey Reds, initially on a short-term contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He signed a permanent deal at the end of last season, but has now extended that contract, following an impressive start to the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased to extend Alun&#8217;s stay at the club, it is something he thoroughly deserves,&#8221; said Cardiff head coach Matt Sherratt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a player who has grasped his second opportunity at the club and has become an invaluable player for us. His performances so far this season speak for themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5y45rey25qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff number eight Alun Lawrence has been given a new long-term contract to stay at the Arms Park. Lawrence, 26, returned to Cardiff during the 2023-24 season following the demise of Jersey Reds, initially on a short-term contract. He signed a permanent deal at the end of last season, but has now extended that contract, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8345","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\/8345","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=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8347,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}