{"id":939370,"date":"2026-05-05T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/939370\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:15:16","slug":"jamie-ritchie-set-for-glasgow-warriors-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/939370\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Ritchie set for Glasgow Warriors move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capture of Ritchie will be a boost to Glasgow Warriors fans worried that the loss of senior international players such as <strong>Huw Jones,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Adam Hastings<\/strong> and fellow back-rower <strong>Jack Dempsey <\/strong>will leave the squad short of depth and experience next season.<\/p>\n<p>South African back-row <strong>Ruwald van der Merwe<\/strong> and Australian utility back <strong>Bayley Kuenzle<\/strong> will also join Warriors this summer as head coach <strong>Franco Smith<\/strong> reshapes his squad.<\/p>\n<p>Other back-rows on the Warriors roster for next season are fellow Scotland caps <strong>Rory Darge, Matt Fagerson<\/strong> and <strong>Gregor Brown,<\/strong> plus up-and-comers <strong>Euan Ferrie<\/strong>,<strong> Macenzzie Duncan<\/strong>,<strong> Angus Fraser <\/strong>and<strong> Dylan Cockburn. <\/strong>Meanwhile, <strong>Ally Miller <\/strong>and<strong> Sione Vailanu<\/strong> with the latter\u2019s impending departure having already been confirmed by Warriors assistant coach <strong>Scott Forrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ritchie is a club legend at Edinburgh, but their need when it comes to recruitment is not in the back-row, where they are well stocked for next season by club captain <strong>Magnus Bradbury, Liam McConnell, Freddy Douglas, Ben Muncaster, Luke Crosbie, Tom Currie, Tom Dodd<\/strong> and <strong>Dylan Richardson,<\/strong> plus academy prospect <strong>Ollie Duncan <\/strong>(currently on loan to London Scottish).<\/p>\n<p>Ritchie\u2019s return to club rugby in Scotland will be welcomed \u2013 and likely have been encouraged \u2013 by Scotland head coach <strong>Gregor Townsend<\/strong>, as it means his game-time can be managed to suit the national cause ahead of next year\u2019s World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The capture of Ritchie will be a boost to Glasgow Warriors fans worried that the loss of senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,85185,918,8979,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-939370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-divi","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-glasgow-warriors","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116522157956529744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939370","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=939370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}