{"id":331810,"date":"2025-12-07T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331810\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:58:09","slug":"england-prop-set-to-miss-six-nations-after-ruptured-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331810\/","title":{"rendered":"England prop set to miss Six Nations after ruptured ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bath<\/a> prop Will Stuart<\/a> is unlikely to play any further part in the club\u2019s Investec Champions Cup<\/a> campaign after suffering a suspected Achilles tendon rupture against Munster.<\/p>\n

Stuart received lengthy attention after a scrum collapsed in the 47th minute.<\/p>\n

It will also come as unwelcome news for England<\/a> head coach Steve Borthwick<\/a> as he plans his 2026 Six Nations<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n

Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan said: \u201cNo, he\u2019s not in a good way. It looks like it\u2019s his Achilles. I\u2019m no medical expert, but he couldn\u2019t even stand up when he got pulled off the field.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ll receive an update later, but it looks very serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However van Graan was more than satisfied with the 40-14 victory over Munster<\/a> after racing into a 28-0 lead despite constant rain which made handling the ball almost impossible.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt\u2019s a very good win, five points, and they didn\u2019t get any league points.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s one of our better starts that we\u2019ve had, scoring four tries in I think 18 minutes. At half-time it was important not to let them back in and we won the second half 5-0.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was a great occasion \u2013 two European teams with amazing supporters. What was impressive tonight was the way we adapted. It\u2019s pretty dominating when you start 28-0 and you\u2019ve got what you need.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve just got to manage the rest of the game and make sure they don\u2019t get back into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the maul we were dominant and I think we had ascendancy in the scrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the flipside we\u2019ve got a lot of respect for them and knew they would keep coming. At half-time the game wasn\u2019t over, but we let them play in their own half. Tactically we managed it well and stuck to our plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Munster captain Tadhg Beirne<\/a> held his hand up for the early line-out problems, saying: \u201cIt was a silly error on my part. I lost one and then it was compounded then with a penalty into the corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy yellow card was punished very severely when I was off the field. It was probably on my shoulders that first 20 minutes unfortunately.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll move on for next week, but I thought the fight from that point on was more like the Munster we know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Munster\u2019s head of rugby Clayton McMillan said: \u201cI feel that we are a better team than what we showed in the first 20 minutes, especially against a quality side. You give them that sort of margin and it\u2019s going to be difficult to come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe created a bit of early pressure, but we lost a few early line-outs which lifted the pressure somewhat.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThere were positives. Against one of the top teams in Europe we were able to keep the score even for a good 60 minutes. We don\u2019t want to pat ourselves on the back for that though.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bath prop Will Stuart is unlikely to play any further part in the club\u2019s Investec Champions Cup campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-331810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331810","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=331810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}