{"id":205500,"date":"2025-10-11T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205500\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:19:10","slug":"gloucester-sadly-confirm-jack-singleton-stood-down-after-cardiac-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205500\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucester ‘sadly’ confirm Jack Singleton stood down after cardiac incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gloucester<\/a> and England<\/a> hooker Jack Singleton<\/a> has been ruled out for an extended period after suffering a cardiac event in September, the club have confirmed.<\/p>\n

In a medical update issued by Head of Medical Rhys Hughes, the West Country side stated: \u201cGloucester Rugby can sadly confirm that hooker Jack Singleton will not feature for an extended period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The club said the 29-year-old has been undergoing \u201ca comprehensive period of medical testing in consultation with cardiac specialists\u201d since the incident.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJack will continue to receive full support from the Gloucester Rugby medical team,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

Singleton, who has been capped sevens times by England, last featured for Gloucester in Gallagher PREM Round 1 against Exeter. <\/p>\n

The 5\u201911, 111kg hooker last featured for England against Argentina<\/a> back in 2022, with a move to Toulon<\/a> effectively ruling him out of contention for further Test honours. <\/p>\n

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His absence adds to an already significant Cherry and Whites injury list, with captain Lewis Ludlow<\/a>, Arthur Clark<\/a> and Jack Clement<\/a> among those currently sidelined.<\/p>\n

Vice-captain Clark has undergone foot surgery, while Clement and Ludlow have both gone under the knife for ankle and thumb injuries respectively.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Val Rapava-Ruskin<\/a> continues to manage a recurring knee problem, and prop Jamal Ford-Robinson<\/a> is making \u201cencouraging progress\u201d following summer knee surgery.<\/p>\n

Josh Hathaway and new signing Rob Russell<\/a> are expected to return to training in the coming weeks, while young fullback Ben Redshaw<\/a> has resumed light training after fracturing his ankle on England U20s duty.<\/p>\n

Gloucester added that a number of players \u2014 including Olly Allport<\/a>, George Barton<\/a>, Will Butler<\/a>, Max Llewellyn<\/a>, Kirill Gotovtsev<\/a> and George Knowles<\/a> \u2014 are also unavailable due to short-term injuries.<\/p>\n

In good news Gloucester\u2019s All Blacks<\/a> signing Nepo Laulala<\/a> will finally make his debut when the Cherry and Whites face Bath<\/a> in today\u2019s Gallagher Premiership<\/a> derby at The Rec. <\/p>\n

The 53-cap New Zealand<\/a> prop, who ruptured his Achilles last season, starts at tighthead after four months of rehab. Head coach George Skivington makes three changes from last week, with Matias Alemanno<\/a>, Freddie Thomas<\/a> and James Venter<\/a> coming in as Gloucester stick with a 6\u20132 bench split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester and England hooker Jack Singleton has been ruled out for an extended period after suffering a cardiac…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-205500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}