{"id":11551,"date":"2012-06-16T23:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-injured-lowe-replaced-by-may-in-england-squad\/"},"modified":"2012-06-16T23:27:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:27:42","slug":"rugby-injured-lowe-replaced-by-may-in-england-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-injured-lowe-replaced-by-may-in-england-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Injured Lowe replaced by May in England squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; England wing George Lowe<br \/>\nhas been replaced by Gloucester centre Jonny May for the final<br \/>\nweek of their South African tour, team management announced on<br \/>\nSaturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May flew overnight as a replacement for George Lowe who<br \/>\nwill return home tonight for further consultation after a scan<br \/>\nshowed left ankle ligament damage,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Harlequins wing Lowe was injured during the midweek game<br \/>\nagainst the Southern Barbarians in Kimberley after his foot was<br \/>\ntrapped in an awkward position following a tackle.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old May is uncapped at senior level.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a shame for George because he had a good game against<br \/>\nthe Southern Barbarians until he was injured,&#8221; England head<br \/>\ncoach Stuart Lancaster said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But this is an opportunity for another young player who has<br \/>\ncome up through our age-grade programme and into the Saxons to<br \/>\ngain some valuable international tour experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa won the first of three tests 22-17 in Durban<br \/>\nlast week and the teams meet again in Johannesburg on Saturday<br \/>\nbefore the third and final test in Port Elizabeth.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ken Borland; Editing by John O&#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>JOHANNESBURG, June 16 (Reuters) &#8211; England wing George Lowe has been replaced by Gloucester centre Jonny May for the final week of their South African tour, team management announced on Saturday. &#8220;May flew overnight as a replacement for George Lowe who will return home tonight for further consultation after a scan showed left ankle ligament [&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-11551","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\/11551","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=11551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}