{"id":12580,"date":"2026-04-09T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12580"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:45:42","slug":"premier-womens-rugby-wru-to-express-interest-over-team-in-pwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12580","title":{"rendered":"Premier Women&#8217;s Rugby: WRU to express interest over team in PWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales have 11 players based at current PWR champions Gloucester-Hartpury, including national captain Kate Williams who said the opportunity was an &#8220;exciting prospect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t seemed like it&#8217;s been an option before but it could be an option in the future,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has also been a lack of a high standard domestic rugby in Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Celtic Challenge is looking to address that, with Thunder and Lightning both reaching this year&#8217;s semi-finals, and while the competition is in its infancy, Lynn says it still has a purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do still strongly believe the Celtic Challenge will get there with the investment from Ireland and Scotland, but if we&#8217;ve got an opportunity to put a side in the PWR, we&#8217;ll be looking to show our interest,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester and Trailfinders were the last clubs to join the PWR in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales have 11 players based at current PWR champions Gloucester-Hartpury, including national captain Kate Williams who said the opportunity was an &#8220;exciting prospect&#8221;. &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t seemed like it&#8217;s been an option before but it could be an option in the future,&#8221; she said. There has also been a lack of a high standard domestic rugby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}