{"id":552785,"date":"2026-03-20T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:29:08","slug":"hugh-bokenham-gloucester-lock-joins-worcester-warriors-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552785\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Bokenham: Gloucester lock joins Worcester Warriors on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Worcester Warriors have signed Gloucester lock Hugh Bokenham on loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old Australian joined the Cherry and Whites from Cornish Pirates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c7068n2pwd4o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before the start of the current season <\/a>and has made eight appearances this term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four of those have come in the Prem, including two starts, with the last one at Exeter in Gloucester&#8217;s 39-12 defeat at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also made his Champions Cup debut against Munster in December but his only first-team action in 2026 for Gloucester was in their Prem Rugby Cup win at Bristol at the start of February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bokenham, who can also operate in the back row, arrives at Sixways with Worcester currently third in the Champ table, three points behind Bedford Blues, with seven matches to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warriors take on bottom club Cambridge on Saturday [15:00 GMT] as they try to book a home semi-final in the play-offs during the season&#8217;s final block of matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcester Warriors have signed Gloucester lock Hugh Bokenham on loan. The 24-year-old Australian joined the Cherry and Whites&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-552785","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\/552785","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=552785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}