{"id":265743,"date":"2025-07-15T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265743\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:11:17","slug":"jamie-ritchie-and-tom-jordan-ruled-out-of-scotlands-test-with-samoa-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265743\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Ritchie and Tom Jordan ruled out of Scotland\u2019s Test with Samoa \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scotland have lost Jamie Ritchie and Tom Jordan to injury for their final summer tour match against Samoa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Flanker Ritchie, who left Edinburgh this summer to sign for Perpignan, and new Bristol back Jordan were both injured in Saturday\u2019s 29-14 defeat by Fiji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, Matt Fagerson has brushed off the knock he suffered in Suva and both Ben Muncaster and Gregor Brown are in line to return for Friday\u2019s game at Eden Park in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Assistant coach Pete Horne said: \u201cJamie, unfortunately, he\u2019s hurt his foot. He\u2019s going to be ruled out for the weekend, which is a shame for him.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/sport\/soccer\/derry-city-miss-chance-to-close-gap-on-shamrock-rovers-with-sligo-defeat-LQZVZNCJ6ZAB7EW6V4PAC4GWCE\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Derry City miss chance to close gap on Shamrock Rovers with Sligo defeat\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/F6JLHOXZZVFUXDJKBFHM5EVRJE.JPG\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/sport\/footballsoccer\/2023\/07\/06\/news\/harry_mckirdy_requiring_surgery_which_could_sideline_hibs_forward_for_six_months-3413901\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Harry McKirdy requiring surgery which could sideline Hibs forward for six months\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752545476_992_M2BYIQPMQBI5FLV7FFQIBNZJLM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Tom Jordan has suffered a fracture\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ORAOT7ODDFNAVOKBD2YHYH7ZNM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"590\"\/>Tom Jordan has suffered a fracture (Jane Barlow\/PA) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got good news on Matt. He trained earlier and is going to be fit for the weekend, which is great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAnd then another one that\u2019s unlucky is Tom Jordan. He had a little bit of pain after the game. He doesn\u2019t really complain about anything but he had a bit of swelling in his hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe went for a scan and an X-ray and he\u2019s actually got a fracture in his hand. So he\u2019s going to be ruled out of this weekend as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On the players who missed out on Saturday, Horne said: \u201cGregor is progressing really well. He took part in a bit of training earlier. He\u2019s going through his return to play protocol but he\u2019s tracking really well and should be available, all going well, over the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAnd Ben was back training by the back end last week. So he\u2019ll be fine as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland have lost Jamie Ritchie and Tom Jordan to injury for their final summer tour match against Samoa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[21571,748,4884,18797,5342,28413,712,101387,27242,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-265743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-bristol-bears","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-jamie-ritchie","12":"tag-rugby-union","13":"tag-rugbyu","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-scotland-national-rugby-union-team","16":"tag-tom-jordan","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265743","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=265743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}