{"id":417697,"date":"2025-09-12T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417697\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:52:10","slug":"liam-williams-wales-and-lions-full-back-without-club-after-saracens-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417697\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Williams: Wales and Lions full-back without club after Saracens exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The uncertainty over his future puts his hopes of reaching the milestone of a century of Test appearances agonisingly out of reach at only two caps short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I fear that the international ship has sailed,&#8221; said Williams, who also played in a World Cup semi-final having made his debut in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve not called time on that but it would be impossible without a club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I start playing regularly and there are some injuries in the back three then Steve [Tandy, head coach] may give me a call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams worked with Tandy on the Lions&#8217; tour to South Africa in 2021 and believes he can help turn around Wales, who ended an 18-match losing streak in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Steve&#8217;s personality is a good fit for Wales, he&#8217;s very passionate, productive and positive,&#8221; said Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wales is in a sticky spot but we have a young squad and hopefully the guys can thrive over the next couple of years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams hopes he can still play a part in that recovery before hanging up his boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The uncertainty over his future puts his hopes of reaching the milestone of a century of Test appearances&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-417697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115189772669741701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417697","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=417697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}