{"id":36140,"date":"2025-12-05T00:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/james-williams-bristol-bears-centre-extends-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:58:06","slug":"james-williams-bristol-bears-centre-extends-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/james-williams-bristol-bears-centre-extends-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"James Williams: Bristol Bears centre extends contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bristol Bears inside centre James Williams has signed a new deal to remain at the club beyond this season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old, who can also play at fly-half, joined Bristol in 2022 from Championship side Hartpury and has gone on to make 56 appearances for the club, scoring 12 tries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of rugby Pat Lam described Williams as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ce8q4yd64r1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8220;the glue&#8221;<\/a> which he hopes will keep his midfield together, following his first appearance this season in last weekend&#8217;s 46-12 win against Northampton after a spell out with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The boys find he&#8217;s probably one of the best communicators under pressure in driving our game so whenever Jimmy plays there&#8217;s always really good clarity for the forwards and where they need to be and the way that we play attack and defence,&#8221; Lam told BBC Radio Bristol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c7vm7pg6106o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol Bears inside centre James Williams has signed a new deal to remain at the club beyond this season. The 28-year-old, who can also play at fly-half, joined Bristol in 2022 from Championship side Hartpury and has gone on to make 56 appearances for the club, scoring 12 tries. Director of rugby Pat Lam described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36141,"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\/36140"}],"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=36140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36142,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140\/revisions\/36142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}