{"id":11017,"date":"2012-06-02T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T08:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-australia-call-on-mowen-as-injury-problems-mount\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T08:34:01","slug":"rugby-australia-call-on-mowen-as-injury-problems-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-australia-call-on-mowen-as-injury-problems-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Australia call on Mowen as injury problems mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">June 2<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Injury-hit Australia have called up loose<br \/>\nforward Ben Mowen for the June tests against Scotland and Wales<br \/>\nafter number eight Ben McCalman suffered a shoulder problem.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury, Western Force backrow forward McCalman<br \/>\nwas likely to stay on with the squad to continue his<br \/>\nrehabilitation, the Wallabies said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Uncapped Brumbies skipper Mowen, 27, joins a squad depleted<br \/>\nby the losses of captain James Horwill (hamstring),<br \/>\nfullback-turned-flyhalf Kurtley Beale (shoulder) and utility<br \/>\nback James O&#8217;Connor (liver).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tri-Nations champions Australia meet Scotland on Tuesday in<br \/>\nNewcastle before taking on Six Nations champions Wales in a<br \/>\nthree-test series starting on June 9.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Wallabies will name their team to face Scotland on<br \/>\nSunday.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Patrick Johnston in Singapore; Editing by John<br \/>\nO&#8217;Brien)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Injury-hit Australia have called up loose forward Ben Mowen for the June tests against Scotland and Wales after number eight Ben McCalman suffered a shoulder problem. Despite the injury, Western Force backrow forward McCalman was likely to stay on with the squad to continue his rehabilitation, the Wallabies said in a [&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-11017","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\/11017","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=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}