{"id":10749,"date":"2012-05-27T22:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-1-rugby-horwill-out-of-australia-squad-with-injury\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:30","slug":"update-1-rugby-horwill-out-of-australia-squad-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-rugby-horwill-out-of-australia-squad-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Rugby-Horwill out of Australia squad with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Cooper back in Wallaby squad<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Horwill&#8217;s hamstring costs him a place<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Elsom left out<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Captain James Horwill has been left out<br \/>\nof Australia&#8217;s 39-man squad for the June tests against Scotland<br \/>\nand Wales because of a hamstring injury, the Wallabies said on<br \/>\nSunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The towering lock sustained the injury early in the second<br \/>\nhalf of the Queensland Reds&#8217; 13-12 win over the ACT Brumbies in<br \/>\na Super Rugby match in Canberra on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury, the skipper joined up with the Australia<br \/>\nsquad and coaching staff in Sydney on Sunday and will undergo a<br \/>\nscan on Monday but is expected to miss out on the tests.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Horwill&#8217;s absence will force the Wallabies to name a new<br \/>\ncaptain when they face Scotland on June 5 in Newcastle before<br \/>\nthe first of three tests against Six Nations champions Wales on<br \/>\nsuccessive weekends from June 9.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf Will Genia and openside flanker David Pocock are<br \/>\nthe likely candidates to lead the Tri-Nations champions in the<br \/>\nabsence of Horwill.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Quade Cooper was included in the 39 despite playing<br \/>\nonly 120 minutes of rugby since a serious knee injury sustained<br \/>\nat last year&#8217;s World Cup.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Cooper back in Wallaby squad * Horwill&#8217;s hamstring costs him a place * Elsom left out (Adds details, quotes) May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Captain James Horwill has been left out of Australia&#8217;s 39-man squad for the June tests against Scotland and Wales because of a hamstring injury, the Wallabies said on Sunday. The towering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}