{"id":17216,"date":"2024-05-10T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T09:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/rory-thornton-lock-signs-new-cardiff-contract\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T09:34:29","slug":"rory-thornton-lock-signs-new-cardiff-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/rory-thornton-lock-signs-new-cardiff-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Thornton: Lock signs new Cardiff contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Once-capped Wales lock Rory Thornton has signed a new deal to stay at Cardiff for 2024-25.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old initially moved to Arms Park on loan from Ospreys for the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Staying at Cardiff and continuing to build on the game time and performances I have enjoyed this year was the best option,&#8221; said Thornton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff head coach Matt Sherratt said: \u201cRory has made real improvements across his all-round game this season, which we are all really pleased with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cHe is an excellent set-piece forward, who is offering more and more around the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thornton will continue to compete for a starting place with fellow Wales internationals Teddy Williams and Seb Davies, as well as Ben Donnell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff have not specified the duration of Thornton&#8217;s new contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile tight-head prop Ciaran Parker has retired at the age of 28 after six Cardiff appearances, following his arrival for the start of the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/crgyjypgjl2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once-capped Wales lock Rory Thornton has signed a new deal to stay at Cardiff for 2024-25. The 29-year-old initially moved to Arms Park on loan from Ospreys for the 2018-19 season. &#8220;Staying at Cardiff and continuing to build on the game time and performances I have enjoyed this year was the best option,&#8221; said Thornton. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17218,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions\/17218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}