Confidence in Grady staying despite Premiership interest

MATT Sherratt is “confident” Mason Grady will stay at Cardiff Rugby despite interest from England.

Grady, 21, was the subject of transfer interest from Gallagher Premiership clubs including Bath in recent months. A move across the Bridge would effectively end his Wales prospects due to him having fewer than the 25 caps required. But there has been increasing confidence among Welsh rugby bosses that Grady will snub a move to England in favour of a new deal with the Arms Park outfit. And boss Sherratt believes there will be concrete news on that front soon.

“I don’t think there’s ink on a contract yet, but I’m confident he’s staying,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll get a bit of clarity around that in the next couple of weeks.”

The news comes after Cardiff slumped to a sixth straight defeat after failing to build on an impressive first-half display at high-flying Glasgow Warriors.

The visitors, boosted by the return of four Welsh internationals, raced out the blocks in horrendous conditions at Scotstoun. An early Tinus de Beer penalty handed them the advantage after just three minutes. De Beer slotted over another three points 20 minutes later, while only an intervention from lock Max Williamson on the line prevented the visitors from going over to score the game’s

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first try.

However, Cardiff weren’t to be denied, and just over a minute later did manage to cross the whitewash. Thomas Young did brilliantly to break the Glasgow line, before Cardiff fired their way through the offloads to set up Ben Thomas to go over in the corner for a converted score.

However, the hosts galvanised themselves in the second half, and hauled themselves back into the game just two minutes after the restart. Some fine work from Jamie Dobie teed up Williamson, who stepped past Young to crash over for his first-ever try for the Warriors. Ten minutes later, the hosts were in front, with Dobie again at the heart of proceedings, coming up just short of the line, before his team-mates worked through the phases to allow Lucio Sordoni to eventually go over.

Duncan Weir slotted home the extras on both occasions, and suddenly it was Cardiff who were finding themselves under the cosh. Weir then kicked over a penalty after Cardiff were penalised at the breakdown as Glasgow continue to edge their way home. Kyle Steyn thought he’d wrapped it up with a try at 10 minutes from time, only to see it chalked off due to a forward pass from Josh McKay.