{"id":3138,"date":"2014-11-05T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2014-11-05T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:42:57","slug":"look-players-strike-christian-day-players-union-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/look-players-strike-christian-day-players-union-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Look after players or they could strike \u2013 Christian Day (Players Union Boss)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-rugby-paper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-rugby-paper.jpg\" alt=\"the rugby paper\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-rugby-paper.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-rugby-paper-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPlayers\u2019 union boss Christian Day has warned industrial action is possible if concerns over player welfare are not adequately addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Saints second-row Day, newly appointed chairman of the Rugby Players\u2019 Association (RPA), applauds the new protocols over concussion, but believes much work remains to be done on issues such as insurance, rest periods and game limits.<\/p>\n<p>Day wants mandatory summer rest periods introduced, adding: \u201cThat\u2019s at the forefront of most players\u2019 minds and, ultimately, there\u2019s a huge onus on Premiership Rugby (PRL) and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to ensure player welfare because we\u2019re the ones earning their money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therugbypaper.co.uk\/featured-post\/19195\/look-after-players-or-they-could-strike-christian-day\/#sthash.AtLUZS7L.dpuf\">http:\/\/www.therugbypaper.co.uk\/featured-post\/19195\/look-after-players-or-they-could-strike-christian-day\/#sthash.AtLUZS7L.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players\u2019 union boss Christian Day has warned industrial action is possible if concerns over player welfare are not adequately addressed. Saints second-row Day, newly appointed chairman of the Rugby Players\u2019 Association (RPA), applauds the new protocols over concussion, but believes much work remains to be done on issues such as insurance, rest periods and game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[683,1513,239,1512,45,291],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-after","tag-christian","tag-day","tag-look","tag-players","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}