{"id":12143,"date":"2025-03-20T21:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ospreys-sign-gloucester-hooker-george-mcguigan-on-short-term-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:06:36","slug":"ospreys-sign-gloucester-hooker-george-mcguigan-on-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ospreys-sign-gloucester-hooker-george-mcguigan-on-short-term-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ospreys sign Gloucester hooker George McGuigan on short-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ospreys have signed Gloucester hooker George McGuigan on a short-term deal as cover after losing Lewis Lloyd to injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGuigan, 31, has a reputation as a strong ball carrier with more than 50 tries in top competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He joined Gloucester from Newcastle in 2022, but injuries have disrupted his progress in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGuigan said: &#8220;There have been some legends of the game that have played for the Ospreys, and I&#8217;m already looking forward to donning the jersey for the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys head coach Mark Jones, said: &#8220;After speaking to George, I know he is keen to make an instant impact and whilst we were obviously gutted to lose Lew (Lewis Lloyd) to injury, we feel this signing further adds to our strength in the two jersey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cjd3gg1x51xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ospreys have signed Gloucester hooker George McGuigan on a short-term deal as cover after losing Lewis Lloyd to injury. McGuigan, 31, has a reputation as a strong ball carrier with more than 50 tries in top competitions. He joined Gloucester from Newcastle in 2022, but injuries have disrupted his progress in the last 12 months. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12145,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions\/12145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}