{"id":27467,"date":"2025-03-16T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/six-nations-2025-townsend-optimistic-on-scotland-future-but-is-it-time-for-change\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:29:08","slug":"six-nations-2025-townsend-optimistic-on-scotland-future-but-is-it-time-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/six-nations-2025-townsend-optimistic-on-scotland-future-but-is-it-time-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2025: Townsend optimistic on Scotland future but is it &#8216;time for change&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t like saying this, but I genuinely think it&#8217;s a time for a change at the top end,&#8221; Wright told the BBC&#8217;s Scotland Rugby Podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Gregor&#8217;s been here a long time and he&#8217;s changed and he&#8217;s made the team play some great, exciting rugby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But ultimately he&#8217;s not had any real success in the Six Nations or the World Cups &#8211; out twice before the knockout stages, although we&#8217;ve had two really tough groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one thing about changing the style and being exciting and good to watch, but ultimately we want to try and be competing at the top end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Are we delusional to think that we&#8217;re actually good enough to compete at the top end? I would say with this group of players, we should be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think Gregor&#8217;s a really good coach, and I think the guys he&#8217;s got round about him are good guys, but maybe it&#8217;s just a new voice that&#8217;s needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c62zjzn1xypo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like saying this, but I genuinely think it&#8217;s a time for a change at the top end,&#8221; Wright told the BBC&#8217;s Scotland Rugby Podcast. &#8220;Gregor&#8217;s been here a long time and he&#8217;s changed and he&#8217;s made the team play some great, exciting rugby. &#8220;But ultimately he&#8217;s not had any real success in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27468,"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\/27467"}],"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=27467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27469,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467\/revisions\/27469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}