{"id":141843,"date":"2025-05-29T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141843\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:33:22","slug":"lions-star-huw-jones-out-of-glasgow-warriors-urc-clash-stormers-planet-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141843\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions star Huw Jones out of Glasgow Warriors’ URC clash Stormers : Planet Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"

British & Irish Lions centre Huw Jones has been ruled out of Glasgow Warriors\u2019 fixture against the Stormers due to an Achilles injury, it has been confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jones was not named in the Warriors squad for the United Rugby Championship (URC) quarter-final at Scotstoun on Friday night in a huge blow to the Scottish side\u2019s hopes.<\/p>\n

The news will also worry Lions<\/a> fans and the coaching staff as Achilles problems are always a concern, with the game against Argentina in Dublin less than a month away.<\/p>\n

No Huw Jones<\/p>\n

Stafford McDowall comes into the starting team in Jones<\/a>\u2018 shirt and links up with\u00a0Sione Tuipulotu in midfield, with George Horne and Tom Jordan the half-back combination.<\/p>\n

Kyle Steyn leads the side from wing, as Kyle Rowe \u2013 fresh from renewing his contract with the URC<\/a> club earlier this week \u2013 joins Josh McKay to complete the back-three.<\/p>\n

Jamie Bhatti is the only member of the front-row that started at Leinster a fortnight ago to retain his place. He is joined by prop Murphy Walker and hooker Gregor Hiddleston.<\/p>\n

Alex Samuel continues in the second-row for Glasgow Warriors<\/a>, with Scott Cummings promoted to a starting position after coming off the bench against Leinster last time out.<\/p>\n

Henco Venter\u2019s return from suspension sees the South African pack down at number eight, joining Euan Ferrie and Rory Darge as the loose-forward trio for Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

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For the Stormers<\/a>, Warrick Gelant will link up with Seabelo Senatla and Ben Loader in the back three, with Suleiman Hartzenberg alongside Dan du Plessis in the midfield.<\/p>\n

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Stefan Ungerer will continue as the half-back pairing with the experienced Herschel Jantjies and Manie Libbok<\/a> on bench duty for the match.<\/p>\n

Evan Roos resumes his place at the back of the scrum, with Marcel Theunissen and Paul de Villiers named on the flanks and Louw Nel among the replacement options.<\/p>\n

Captain Salmaan Moerat starts alongside Ruben van Heerden at second-row, with JD Schickerling and Connor Evans among the six forwards set to feature after half-time.<\/p>\n

Andre-Hugo Venter starts at hooker, with Ali Vermaak and Neethling Fouche either side of him, with Vernon Matongo, Joseph Dweba and Sazi Sandi among the replacements.<\/p>\n

The teams<\/p>\n

Glasgow Warriors:<\/b> 15 Josh McKay, 14 Kyle Rowe, 13 Stafford McDowall, 12 Sione Tuipulotu, 11 Kyle Steyn (c), 10 Tom Jordan, 9 George Horne, 8 Henco Venter, 7 Rory Darge, 6 Euan Ferrie, 5 Scott Cummings, 4 Alex Samuel, 3 Murphy Walker, 2 Gregor Hiddleston, 1 Jamie Bhatti
Replacements:<\/b> 16 Johnny Matthews, 17 Nathan McBeth, 18 Sam Talakai, 19 Max Williamson, 20 Jack Mann, 21 Macenzzie Duncan, 22 Jamie Dobie, 23 Adam Hastings<\/p>\n

Stormers:<\/b> 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Ben Loader, 13 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Seabelo Senatla, 10 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 9 Stefan Ungerer, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Marcel Theunissen, 6 Paul de Villiers, 5 Ruben van Heerden, 4 Salmaan Moerat (c), 3 Neethling Fouche, 2 Andre-Hugo Venter, 1 Ali Vermaak
Replacements:<\/b> 16 Joseph Dweba, 17 Vernon Matongo, 18 Sazi Sandi, 19 JD Schickerling, 20 Connor Evans, 21 Louw Nel, 22 Herschel Jantjies, 23 Manie Libbok<\/p>\n

Venue:<\/b> Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow
Kick-off:<\/b> 19.35 IRE & UK \/ 20.35 ITA & SA
Referee:<\/b> Andrew Brace (IRFU)
Assistant Referees:<\/b> Ben Whitehouse (WRU), Ben Breakspear (WRU)
TMO:<\/b> Olly Hodges (IRFU)
Live on:<\/b> Premier Sports, TG4, SuperSport, Flo Rugby & URC.tv<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Eben Etzebeth issues a \u2018get each other in a ruck\u2019 warning to Springboks teammate ahead of URC quarter-final<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British & Irish Lions centre Huw Jones has been ruled out of Glasgow Warriors\u2019 fixture against the Stormers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,5313,918,8979,4884,225,28613,43921,12,712,19911,16,15,4510],"class_list":{"0":"post-141843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british-and-irish-lions","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-glasgow-warriors","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-huw-jones","15":"tag-manie-libbok","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-stormers","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-united-rugby-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141843","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=141843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}