{"id":353769,"date":"2025-12-17T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353769\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:25:10","slug":"in-form-adam-hastings-opens-up-on-coming-through-three-years-of-injury-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353769\/","title":{"rendered":"In-form Adam Hastings opens up on coming through three years of injury hell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After everything he has been through over the past few years, Adam Hastings<\/a> has good reason to savour the special days he is now enjoying.<\/p>\n

The Scotland<\/a> international has put a nightmare time on the injury front behind him and is currently playing some of the best rugby of his life for Glasgow<\/a> Warriors.<\/p>\n

He was Player of the Match in last weekend\u2019s memorable Investec Champions Cup<\/a> victory over Toulouse, expertly pulling the strings from fly-half as Glasgow came from 21-0 down to win 28-21 at a windswept Scotstoun.<\/p>\n

So the 30-year-old will be on a real high going into Saturday\u2019s huge URC derby showdown with Edinburgh<\/a> Rugby at Hampden Park.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

United Rugby Championship<\/p>\n

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Glasgow <\/p>\n

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Edinburgh <\/p>\n

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His buoyant mood is a far cry from the tough times he went through during a three-year period that brought a series of demoralising setbacks on the fitness front.<\/p>\n

While at Gloucester, there was a torn hamstring, a dislocated shoulder and a succession of knee ligament issues. Then, following his return to Glasgow last year, he suffered a horrific double jaw fracture.<\/p>\n

But happily those dark days are now behind him and he looks to be loving his rugby.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy body has taken a bit of a battering over the last three years,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had quite a lot of time out with injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t play a whole lot of rugby in my last two years at Gloucester. Last year, I strung eight games together at the start of the season, I was playing well, and then I was out for another three months with my jaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, for me, it\u2019s just important to focus on each week as it comes and not look too far into the future.
\u201cBut I feel in a good place now. I feel pretty strong and fit. Touch wood, I can remain fit for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Head-to-Head <\/p>\n

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Last 5 Meetings<\/p>\n

Average Points scored<\/p>\n

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Hastings \u2013 the son of former Scotland and Lions<\/a> skipper Gavin \u2013 admits the string of injuries he suffered during his time at Gloucester<\/a> were particularly challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was cursed. I couldn\u2019t believe my luck,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were definitely times where I thought \u2018Is my body able to actually play this game anymore?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI never actually thought about retiring, but it definitely crossed my mind will I have to. It was a tough one. It was a difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, after making an impressive start to his second spell with Glasgow, he suffered a double break of his jaw while attempting a tackle against the Scarlets<\/a> in November of last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t really remember it. I just remember kind of coming to, as I was walking down the tunnel into the doctor\u2019s room.\u201d<\/p>\n

On arriving at hospital, he came to realise the full extent of the damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy jaw was just apart. It was like two jaws. It was pretty horrendous,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have had a lot of injuries, but that was the worst one.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awful. I had six weeks on basically a liquid diet. I lost four kilos in a week and about seven kilos overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

After undergoing surgery that saw bolts and wires inserted in his jaw, he was sidelined for some three months, ruling him out of the Six Nations.<\/p>\n

But, on returning to action, his fine form saw him selected for Scotland\u2019s summer tour of New Zealand<\/a> and Fiji<\/a> where he started against the Maori All Blacks<\/a> and came off the bench in the Test encounters with the Fijians and Samoa.<\/p>\n

Then, last month, he lined up at No.10 in the opening autumn international against the USA<\/a> at Murrayfield, taking his tally of caps up to 35 in a record 85-0 demolition.<\/p>\n

The Edinburgh-born Hastings has figured in every game for Glasgow so far this season, with last weekend\u2019s Euro triumph against Toulouse<\/a> being a real high point. He is quick to pay tribute to the part the home supporters played at a packed Scotstoun amid one of the great comeback wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the fans to come out on a night like that, a sell out, and just get behind us, it meant the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s huge for the mental side of it as well, the confidence that we got, because we\u2019ve had a few scoldings in Europe over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s just good to get a statement result like that, especially at home as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hastings converted all four of Glasgow\u2019s second half tries as they turned the game on its head.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a tough first half for us into the wind. It was just so hard to exit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we had the same against Sale<\/a> the week before. It helped us a bit knowing we had come back in that game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had the wind, we knew if we just stuck to the process, got a bit of territory and put a few phases together, we would be ok.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought our forwards were so good. We spoke about helping them out as a backline, but what a shift from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s back to league action and the 1872 Cup, with a Hampden humdinger against Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After everything he has been through over the past few years, Adam Hastings has good reason to savour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-353769","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\/353769","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=353769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}