{"id":302518,"date":"2026-02-17T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:51:08","slug":"scotland-trio-ritchie-dobie-and-dempsey-leave-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302518\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland trio Ritchie, Dobie and Dempsey leave camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Ritchie, Jamie Dobie and Jack Dempsey have all left the Scotland camp to have injuries assessed by their clubs, Scottish Rugby has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The key trio started Saturday’s Calcutta Cup triumph over England at Murrayfield but were all forced off before the end.<\/p>\n

Perpignan flanker Ritchie suffered a knee injury, Glasgow number eight Dempsey went off with a bicep issue and Glasgow back Jamie Dobie has a shoulder problem.<\/p>\n

They are no longer with the Scotland squad, who are currently training in Spain ahead of Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations trip to Wales.<\/p>\n

Head coach Gregor Townsend indicated after the 31-20 victory over England<\/a> that all three players had suffered “serious” injuries that may prematurely end their involvement in the championship.<\/p>\n

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Dobie’s absence could open the door for at least one of Duhan van der Merwe or Blair Kinghorn – the two British and Irish Lions backs who have not even made the 23 for the opening two matches – to return to the squad for Cardiff.<\/p>\n

Scotland sit second in the table, with matches away to Wales and Ireland either side of a Murrayfield meeting with France.<\/p>\n

Watch England v Ireland in the Six Nations on Saturday from 1pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to commentary on Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 <\/p>\n

Watch France v Italy in the Six Nations on Sunday from 2.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Ritchie, Jamie Dobie and Jack Dempsey have all left the Scotland camp to have injuries assessed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-302518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}