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Scotsman
2 days ago
- Sport
- Scotsman
Glasgow Warriors give update on Huw Jones injury and Lions prognosis
Glasgow Warriors' Huw Jones will miss the URC play-off quarter-final against the Stormers. | SNS Group Smith explains injury situation for Warriors man Sign up to our Rugby Union newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Huw Jones has an Achilles tendon issue that will need to be managed but Glasgow Warriors coach Franco Smith is confident it will not affect the player's participation in the British & Irish Lions' summer tour. The centre has been ruled out of Glasgow's United Rugby Championship quarter-final against the Stormers at Scotstoun on Friday night after the problem flared up again and Stafford McDowall will take his place at 13. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Jones, 31, made his long-awaited comeback for the Warriors against Benetton earlier this month. It was his first match since playing for Scotland against France in the Six Nations decider and he retained his place for Glasgow's game with Leinster a fortnight ago. Glasgow Warriors' Huw Jones will miss the URC play-off quarter-final against the Stormers. | SNS Group The injury has troubled Jones for some time and while it won't require surgery it will need to be carefully managed. 'Unfortunately since the Six Nations, Huw has been struggling with that,' said Smith. 'It's not a muscle injury, it's a tendon issue. It flares up and it takes a lot of time to get the inflammation gone. He's not been available. All our Lions haven't been available much since the Six Nations. 'When this thing reoccurred at the back end of last week, it looked treatable and we've managed it well. But it just flared up again on Tuesday. He was announced originally in the team but unfortunately now for him, we have to go and have a deeper look to see if we can get him fixed and get the inflammation down so he'll be able to play in any other game that hopefully we will play going forward.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Glasgow are aiming to retain the URC title they won so impressively last season and a victory over the Stormers would set up a semi-final against either Leinster or Scarlets. Jones played a key role in last year's triumph, dovetailing brilliantly with Sione Tuipulotu in the midfield. His centre partner has also been sidelined by injury and only made his return in the Leinster game after four months out. While Tuipulotu has come through unscathed, Jones will have to be patient as Glasgow try to ease him back. Glasgow Warriors' Huw Jones and Sione Tuipulotu after they were named in the British & Irish Lions squad. | SNS Group 'Without becoming a doctor in five minutes, I can honestly state that it's something that will be managed for the rest of his career,' added Smith. 'By the last five years of my own career, I had similar problems so I can relate to what's happening to him. 'Unfortunately, you pick up a little bit of wear and tear through the years. Now at the later stage of one's career, it always influences things a little bit. But it is treatable, it is manageable and I'm sure he'll be back fighting as early as next week.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Jones, Tuipulotu and their Glasgow team-mates Scott Cummings and Zander Fagerson have all been named in the Lions squad for the tour of Australia and Smith insisted Jones' place was not in doubt. 'No, not at all,' said the coach. 'Huw is an important player for us and it's important that he gets well. I think he's going to play a lot of rugby still in the summer.' Smith sad at exits Smith, meanwhile, has expressed his disappointment at the imminent departure of Sebastian Cancelliere and JP du Preez who will leave the club at the end of the season. The pair are part of a group of eight exits announced this week by Glasgow. 'I'm really disappointed,' said Smith. 'There's nobody at the club that I wanted to lose. We're people that give our hearts and those two are similar. The disappointment in their eyes and the way they've gone about their business, JP working hard to get back in form and obviously, Seb has been brilliant for the time I've been here. But even before he's absolutely had value on and off the pitch. I'm really disappointed that it's come to an end for him here.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Scottish Rugby is in the process of implementing a policy of having more Scottish players which is believed to have partly shaped the decision to allow Cancelliere and du Preez to leave. Smith has already expressed his sadness that Henco Venter, the South African No 8, is also leaving.
The Herald Scotland
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Jamie Ritchie & Rory Darge react to British & Irish Lions snub
Both Edinburgh's Ritchie and Glasgow Warriors' Rory Darge were not included in the squad for the tour of Australia as eight Scots made the cut. Scott Cummings, Zander Fagerson and Pierre Schoeman are the Scottish representatives among a 21-strong selection of forwards for the Lions. Huw Jones, Blair Kinghorn, Finn Russell, Sione Tuipulotu and Duhan van der Merwe feature in the 17-man backs selection. The eight-man Scotland inclusion matches the number of Scots involved in the last tour in 2021, and is one shy of the all-time record from 1989. Ritchie and Darge were overlooked but neither player required support after the decision with the experience to be used as motivation moving forward as both men remain satisfied with their efforts even if they were not selected. 'Personally, I feel like I'd done all I could in terms of how I performed and stuff, so I was comfortable with that," said Ricthie on the BBC Scotland Rugby Podcast. 'At the end of the day, it's down to someone's opinion and decision-making and what they feel they need in their squad. At that point, it's outside of my control. For 2021, I feel like I was further away than I was this year, but I was more upset then. Read more: 'I'm a bit more mature now in terms of how I react to these things. Obviously, it would have been nice to have that moment, but I'm comfortable with the performances that I've put in to put myself in the mix. I said this to my wife because she was quite upset when we watched it together. 'I said to her, if you look at the position we were in a year ago after Six Nations, where it hadn't gone the way I wanted to in terms of selection and missing out on the captaincy and humming and hawing about whether or not I was going to go on the summer tour, if we'd said we'd be sitting here at the Lions announcement day, feeling like we were in with a real shout and then disappointed when it didn't happen, we would absolutely have taken it. 'That's the perspective that I'm taking on at the moment. I felt like I did all I could. The call didn't come, and that's OK.' Ritchie discussed the thinking behind selections with Lions and Scotland coach John Dalziel but has not had any official word over making a standby list for the tour. 'I know how much I put into this game and how much I put into preparing and going out and playing and putting my body through, so why should other people get to experience that?' said Darge. 'And I'm not saying that from a negative point of view, it's purely a positive point of view. 'I was delighted for the guys that are involved and it just was a bit of a motivator for me, really, and something to aspire to. 'You have to have that initial bit where you are gutted and you're like, 'why can't I be involved in that?' But then, really quickly you're able to be like, that's something to aspire to, that's something to hopefully one day be a part of.'
Scotsman
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
'Yellow card didn't help' - but Adam Hastings looks forward to Glasgow Warriors' Dublin return
Plan in place to right wrongs of heavy Champions Cup defeat Sign up to our Rugby Union newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Assistant coach Nigel Carolan spoke this week of the 'mental scars' from Glasgow Warriors' 52-0 loss to Leinster last month but Adam Hastings is fairly sanguine about returning to Dublin this weekend. Adam Hastings is looking forward to going back to Dublin. | SNS Group The stand-off likes the Aviva as a stadium and has enough good memories of wins over Leinster in his career not to be fazed by what happened a few weeks ago. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'It's a cool place to play,' said the stand-off. 'You want to be playing against the best teams, so yeah, I'm looking forward to it.' Adam Hastings is looking forward to going back to Dublin. | SNS Group The defeat in the Investec Champions Cup quarter-final was the low point of Glasgow's season and the start of a run of three defeats in four. They still have plenty left to play for and are already assured of a home quarter-final in the United Rugby Championship play-offs as they seek to defeat the crown they won so impressively last year. This Saturday's game with Leinster is the final one of the regular season and a chance to put right some of the things that went wrong in the Champions Cup. Hastings, who was sent to the sin-bin during a torrid first half in Dublin, thinks they are equipped to do so. 'We've revisited some of the things that we could have worked on last time,' he said. 'I'm sure the coaches have put a good plan in place for us, so we're just getting into that now. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Glasgow Warriors' Adam Hastings gets to grips with Dan Sheehan of Leinster during the Investec Champions Cup quarter-final match at the Aviva Stadium on April 11. | Getty Images 'I can't tell you what, or else they'll know! But my yellow card didn't help, so I'll try to stay on the pitch for 80 minutes this time. That was a big one but there are lots of little areas. Set-piece was one where we probably didn't quite go as well as we wanted, just winning our own ball. 'We've got certain focuses like that, and many more this weekend. Put a plan together and hopefully go well.' 'It's been a tricky period,' added Hasings. 'Some things haven't been going quite as well as we'd want, but that's OK. That happens sometimes during a season. Ideally, you don't want it to happen, but most teams will have that. They'll have a patch where it's not going well, and then they'll have a really good purple patch. Hopefully, we're just coming into that now.' Hastings has enjoyed his first season back at Glasgow after three years in the English Premiership with Gloucester. He watched from afar last June as the Warriors won the URC and would love to help them retain the trophy. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
Scotsman
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Sebastián Cancelliere would be big loss to Glasgow Warriors as Scottish Rugby moves to less foreign players
Argentina international winger linked with move to his former club Sign up to our Rugby Union newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Sebastián Cancelliere looks like being the next high profile departure from Glasgow Warriors as Scottish Rugby moves towards having fewer foreign players in the domestic game. Sebastian Cancelliere was player of the match in Glasgow Warriors' recent win over Munster at Scotstoun Stadium. | SNS Group The Argentina international is in his fourth year with the Scotstoun club and was a key member of last season's United Rugby Championship-winning team. Cancelliere, 31, started the final against the Bulls and scored eight tries in 15 matches over the course of the campaign. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The winger is out of contract at the end of the season and being linked with a move back to Argentina to join the Hindu club in Buenos Aires where he started his career. Sebastian Cancelliere was player of the match in Glasgow Warriors' recent win over Munster at Scotstoun Stadium. | SNS Group Nigel Carolan, Glasgow's assistant coach, conceded it would be a big loss if the deal goes through and cautioned against allowing too many foreign players to leave. It was announced last month that Henco Venter, Glasgow's experienced South African back-rower, would be joining Brive in the summer. 'Seb has been a massive contributor to our success over the last few years,' said Carolan. 'I guess with the reduction in foreign player availability and what we can accommodate in our squads, the powers that be are maybe hinting that we're trying to bring more Scottish players through. 'But Seb has been and continues to be a great contributor to us. He's been there in all the big games and scoring tries. So look, if that's the case, he's going to be a big loss.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The contribution made by the likes of Cancelliere and Venter should not be underestimated, said Carolan, particularly in the period of the season when the club loses around 15 of its players to the Scotland squad. 'When our international players are away, these are the guys that step up and carry us through,' said Carolan. 'They're important for us, for the club, and they've done really well. I don't think Glasgow Warriors would be in as good a place without the help of some of these guys over the last number of years.' Glasgow Warriors' Sebastian Cancelliere on the attack in the Investec Champions Cup win over Leicester Tigers. | SNS Group The coach stressed the importance of allowing young Scottish players to develop but believes experienced foreign campaigners can help. 'It's definitely a balance,' he said. 'If they're blocking the road of a Scottish player, I think there's a conversation to be had there. But I think when they're contributing and bringing young Scottish players through, I think there's value to be had in them. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Those guys like Henco Venter and Sebastian, have been really positive for us. I think it's a healthy thing.
Scotsman
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Lions stat is credit to Franco Smith as key Glasgow Warriors players return
Coach backs Jones and Tuipulotu for Test team Sign up to our Rugby Union newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Franco Smith was proud to see four of his Glasgow Warriors players called into the Lions squad this week and he welcomes two of them back into his starting line-up for the URC game against Benetton in Italy on Saturday. Huw Jones plays for the first time since the Six Nations after recovering from an ankle injury and Scott Cummings starts at blindside flanker after 20 minutes off the bench against the Bulls last time out. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The game in Treviso comes a week too soon for a third Lion, Sione Tuipulotu, while the fourth, Zander Fagerson, continues his rehab. Glasgow Warriors' Scott Cummings with head coach Franco Smith. Cummings was this week named in the Lions squad. | SNS Group Thursday was a momentous day at Scotstoun as the Glasgow squad gathered to hear Andy Farrell's selections and Smith admitted it was emotional. 'It's the first time I've coached a team that the Lions get picked from and I'm really proud of them,' he said. 'I think one or two boys may be unlucky to not be there, but you never know going forward.' Leinster were the only club to supply more players to the Lions than Glasgow, for which Smith deserves huge credit, but he was typically eager to share the plaudits. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'There's a lot of hands that have contributed,' he said. 'I appreciate the compliment. I think the whole environment in the last three years allowed players to develop to an international level. 'We've got a lot of internationals and these four guys that will go on to play for the Lions will probably make room for another four to be picked by Scotland. This is an environment that creates national players and players that can perform at international level. That's a compliment to our current structure and our rugby programme.' Smith sees no reason why the Jones and Tuipulotu centre partnership can't work in the Lions Test team. Glasgow Warriors' Zander Fagerson, Scott Cummings, Huw Jones and Sione Tuipulotu after being called up for the British & Irish Lions squad. | SNS Group 'Look, they're a proven pair, aren't they? They've shown that for both club and country consistently, not just on and off. It wouldn't surprise me. I can't put words in anybody's mouth, but if they both recover their form and they play well in the next five weeks, I definitely think they must be main contenders to play the Test matches.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Murphy Walker is on the bench for Glasgow and is set to make his first appearance since playing for Scotland against Uruguay on last summer's tour. Benetton v Glasgow Warriors (URC rd 17, Stadio Monigo, Treviso, Saturday, 5.15pm BST) Benetton: Rhyno Smith; Ignacio Mendy, Tommaso Menoncello, Ignacio Brex, Paolo Odogwu; Jacob Umaga, Alessandro Garbisi; Thomas Gallo, Siua Maile, Simone Ferrari, Scott Scrafton, Federico Ruzza (capt), Riccardo Favretto, Manuel Zuliani, Lorenzo Cannone. Replacements: Agustin Creevy, Mirco Spagnolo, Giosuè Zilocchi, Niccolò Cannone, Sebastian Negri, Nicolò Casilio, Leonardo Marin, Malakai Fekitoa. Glasgow Warriors: Ollie Smith; Jamie Dobie, Huw Jones, Stafford McDowall, Kyle Steyn (capt); Tom Jordan, George Horne; Jamie Bhatti, Johnny Matthews, Fin Richardson, Max Williamson, Alex Samuel, Scott Cummings, Rory Darge, Sione Vailanu. Replacements: Gregor Hiddleston, Nathan McBeth, Murphy Walker, JP du Preez, Euan Ferrie, Ben Afshar, Adam Hastings, Kyle Rowe.
