{"id":260572,"date":"2025-07-13T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260572\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:28:15","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-jamie-george-called-up-to-lions-after-luke-cowan-dickie-injury-garry-ringrose-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260572\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: Jamie George called up to Lions after Luke Cowan-Dickie injury & Garry Ringrose out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farrell, meanwhile, confirmed centre Garry Ringrose has been ruled out of the first Test against Australia.<\/p>\n

Ringrose, 30, was in strong contention to start the first Test in Brisbane but suffered a concussion in the Lions’ victory over ACT Brumbies<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Farrell confirmed the Ireland centre, who scored and was a standout performer against the Brumbies, would be available for the midweek game against First Nations and Pasifika XV on 22 July, before the second Test in Melbourne on 26 July.<\/p>\n

Scotland’s Huw Jones delivered another impressive performance on Saturday in the eight-try win against the AUNZ Invitational XV and now looks certain to start the opening Test at outside centre.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old has started his past two Lions games alongside Scotland and Glasgow Warriors centre partner Sione Tuipulotu, which could now be Farrell’s first-Test midfield combination.<\/p>\n

Ireland utility back Jamie Osborne was called up to the Lions squad on Thursday as “training cover”<\/a> for Scotland full-back Kinghorn and is comfortable playing at centre or full-back.<\/p>\n

“Garry had a delayed reaction. He had headaches for a day and it carried on for the next day so he went through concussion protocols and failed those,” Farrell said.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately for him and for us he’s [out for] 12 days, so that puts him out of the first Test and back in for the midweek game before the second Test.<\/p>\n

“You don’t mess around with these things and it is unfortunate for him and everyone else. He’s in good spirits anyway, so we crack on.”<\/p>\n

The Lions’ final Test against the Wallabies is on 2 August in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farrell, meanwhile, confirmed centre Garry Ringrose has been ruled out of the first Test against Australia. Ringrose, 30,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-260572","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\/114843805587460414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260572","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=260572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}