{"id":172911,"date":"2025-10-01T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:49:07","slug":"steve-diamond-has-another-dig-at-bath-after-unlucky-breaks-force-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172911\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Diamond has another dig at Bath after unlucky breaks force his hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newcastle<\/a> Red Bulls<\/a> boss Steve Diamond, who has made 16 signings since July, has revealed that he needs to enter the transfer market to pick up another scrum-half.<\/p>\n

Diamond\u2019s hand has been forced after Joe Davis<\/a> and Sam Stuart<\/a> suffered broken bones, leaving him short of numbers just when he thought he was finished with his recruitment.<\/p>\n

He says that he doesn\u2019t want to have to pull out the cheque book every time he suffers an injury problem, but this time, he has no other option, despite Argentina<\/a> international Sim\u00f3n Ben\u00edtez Cruz arriving in the North East next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have got a little issue at scrum-half. We have got Sim\u00f3n Ben\u00edtez Cruz arriving. We think he will be involved with Argentina at the weekend, and he will be coming here on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he is going to go again in the Autumn internationals. Joe Davis is a real prospect, but he has broken his forearm in an England<\/a> U20s warm-up game.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam Stuart has got a fractured elbow. The scans have shown a hairline fracture, so he is going through the process at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames Elliott did a really good job at the weekend, and Alan Dickens\u2019 son, Jack, who came on trial from Loughborough, was on the bench last weekend. So I am in the market for a nine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously, Diamond has made some throwaway comments about Bath<\/a> being the Galaticos of PREM rugby, and this time he\u2019s had a dig at the size of the reigning champions\u2019 squad, despite his own recent glut of signings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I don\u2019t want to do is every time we get a knock, we go running and bring someone else in, or we will have a squad as big as Bath\u2019s if we carry on doing that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have just got to get through the management of players and give the youth the opportunity if it comes,\u201d he told RugbyPass.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Diamond says that the Red Bulls are still waiting for South African full-back Stefan Coetzee<\/a> to be granted a work permit before he can link up with his new team-mates and be considered for selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls boss Steve Diamond, who has made 16 signings since July, has revealed that he needs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-172911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}