{"id":259037,"date":"2025-07-12T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259037\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:31:16","slug":"japan-win-must-be-the-start-of-something-for-wales-matt-sherratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259037\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan win &#8216;must be the start of something&#8217; for Wales &#8211; Matt Sherratt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; victory against Japan &#8220;must be the start of something&#8221; for Welsh rugby, says interim head coach Matt Sherratt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales ended their 18-match losing run with a hard-fought 31-22 win against Eddie Jones&#8217; Brave Blossoms in Kobe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Sherratt admits he is pleased to have lifted the &#8220;burden&#8221; of his side&#8217;s losing streak ahead of a permanent head coach being announced by the Welsh Rugby Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Read more:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cp90v54x0rmo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Relief and delight as Wales taste victory again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; victory against Japan &#8220;must be the start of something&#8221; for Welsh rugby, says interim head coach Matt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-259037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840514564992271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}