{"id":648617,"date":"2025-12-22T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648617\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:39:22","slug":"urc-scarlets-wait-for-injury-news-on-wales-back-blair-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648617\/","title":{"rendered":"URC: Scarlets wait for injury news on Wales back Blair Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys are sweating on the availability of Wales loose-head prop Gareth Thomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The front-rower was given a down week when his teammates were preparing to face Montauban in the Challenge Cup after his autumn efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he suffered a calf niggle in training and sat out last weekend&#8217;s URC loss to Munster in Bridgend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is struggling a little bit and we are tracking how he is going,&#8221; said head coach Mark Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are picking from a fairly healthy squad, which is positive. We will need the squad through this period because the games are physical by nature because they are derbies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlets and Ospreys name their teams at midday on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ospreys are sweating on the availability of Wales loose-head prop Gareth Thomas. The front-rower was given a down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-648617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115764210153660929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648617","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=648617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}