{"id":9224,"date":"2025-01-11T06:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sam-costelow-fly-half-injury-scare-for-wales-as-six-nations-looms\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T06:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:08:46","slug":"sam-costelow-fly-half-injury-scare-for-wales-as-six-nations-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sam-costelow-fly-half-injury-scare-for-wales-as-six-nations-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Costelow: Fly-half injury scare for Wales as Six Nations looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Costelow, who turned 24 on Friday, was replaced by fellow Wales international Ioan Lloyd, who started at full-back at Kingsholm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there was better news for Gareth Anscombe who has been given the all clear after a knee injury that kept him out of facing Scarlets and Costelow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester head coach George Skivington said: &#8220;Gareth is fine. He took a knock last week and we felt there was no need to risk him again this week as we have cover in that position. But there are no concerns for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales head coach Gatland was at Kingsholm where hopefuls Max Llewellyn, Freddie Thomas and Josh Hathaway helped Gloucester to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3d591295djo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">31-7 win<\/a> over Scarlets ahead of his squad announcement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales kick off their Six Nations in just three weeks when they head to Paris to face France on Friday, 31 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c99y07p2kngo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costelow, who turned 24 on Friday, was replaced by fellow Wales international Ioan Lloyd, who started at full-back at Kingsholm. But there was better news for Gareth Anscombe who has been given the all clear after a knee injury that kept him out of facing Scarlets and Costelow. Gloucester head coach George Skivington said: &#8220;Gareth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9224","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\/9224","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=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9226,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions\/9226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}