{"id":60768,"date":"2025-04-29T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60768\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:28:08","slug":"season-ending-injury-slams-brakes-on-stuart-hoggs-new-lease-of-life-planet-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60768\/","title":{"rendered":"Season-ending injury slams brakes on Stuart Hogg&#8217;s new lease of life : Planet Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stuart Hogg\u2019s first season in the French Top 14 has ended early after an injury sustained last Saturday resulted in an operation on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under contract at Montpellier until 2027 after coming out of retirement last summer, the former Scotland full-back had been enjoying a new lease of life as his team\u2019s out-half.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday\u2019s home win over Perpignan was his 11th league start at number 10, lifting Montpellier to ninth place on the table and leaving them just a point off Clermont in the sixth and final play-off spot.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 19-13 victory came at a heavy cost for Hogg as a second-half injury will see him miss Montpellier\u2019s four remaining regular-season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tournament\/top-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 14<\/a> matches as well as the play-offs if the club progresses that far.<\/p>\n<p>The second half was 14 minutes old at the GGL Stadium when Hogg was tackled after making a catch and the impact from Perpignan winger Tavite Veredamu resulted in a campaign-ending ruptured Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg will be sidelined for between six and nine months<\/p>\n<p>Set to turn 33 next June, Hogg will now be sidelined for between six and nine months. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montpellier-rugby.com\/news\/point-infirmerie-stuart-hogg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pictured on the Montpellier club website sitting up in his hospital bed<\/a> following his surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuart suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon during the second half of the MHR vs USAP match,\u201d read the injury update.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe underwent successful surgery on Tuesday. We wish him a speedy recovery!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/british-and-irish-lions-team-of-the-week-totemic-number-eight-balls-out-while-hype-train-continues-for-english-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British and Irish Lions Team of the Week\u00a0\u2013 \u2018Totemic\u2019 number eight \u2018balls out\u2019 while \u2018hype train continues\u2019 for English forward<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Hogg\u2019s first season in the French Top 14 has ended early after an injury sustained last Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[225,12,4151,79,31434,5707,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-60768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-home-page","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-stuart-hogg","13":"tag-top-14","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114422435446688964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60768","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=60768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}