{"id":259241,"date":"2025-07-12T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259241\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:18:12","slug":"andy-farrell-on-cowan-dickie-as-lions-brace-for-injury-double-whammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259241\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell on Cowan-Dickie as Lions brace for injury double-whammy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Lions<\/a> have suffered a major body blow ahead of the first Test against the Wallabies next Saturday after coach Andy Farrell confirmed hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie<\/a> appeared to have suffered a concussion. <\/p>\n

He has been left counting the cost of the 48\u20130 win over the Australia<\/a> and New Zealand<\/a> Invitational XV at the Adelaide Oval after confirming that the Sale Sharks<\/a> and England<\/a> star suffered a concussion just before half-time.<\/p>\n

Cowan-Dickie needed lengthy treatment after colliding with the hip of Lukhan Salakaia-Loto<\/a> four minutes before the break, but in the second half was seen walking around the tunnel area just before the second half kicked off.<\/p>\n

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He joins a growing injury list that includes Garry Ringrose<\/a>, who took appeared to take a late knock in the 36\u201324 win over the ACT Brumbies. Cowan-Dickie\u2019s injury leaves Ireland<\/a> duo Dan Sheehan<\/a> and R\u00f3nan Kelleher in pole position to take the hooking roles next Saturday. <\/p>\n

Farrell could be tempted to call up England and Saracens<\/a> stalwart Jamie George<\/a>, who is in Argentina<\/a> but who trained with the Lions before they left for Australia as precautionary cover, now he is down to only two fit hookers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like that [replacing Luke Cowan-Dickie with a call-up],\u201d said Farrell after the game, who said he\u2019ll \u2018select the right person for the squad.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is in good spirits and is back to his normal self. It looked like a concussion, so we will have to see what happens after that. We will wait to see what the medics say.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to enjoy a bit of downtime as it has been full on for 14 days, it has been a tough old block. We want people to put their hands up, and this group will roll on together and go after the Test series together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Scotland full-back Blair Kinghorn<\/a> also faces a race to be fit for the first Test after suffering a blow to the knee in the win in the Australian capital in midweek, but was cleared of serious damage following a scan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions have suffered a major body blow ahead of the first Test against the Wallabies next Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-259241","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\/114840935040921844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259241","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=259241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}