{"id":3008,"date":"2025-12-12T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:52:40","slug":"max-llewellyn-and-will-joseph-gloucester-duo-face-long-period-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Max Llewellyn and Will Joseph: Gloucester duo face long period out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC Radio Gloucestershire before both players had been for scans, director of rugby George Skivington said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think either look exactly positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[It was] fairly innocuous for Max but a decent enough bang, we just hope it&#8217;s on the lesser side of it than too serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I think both of those are going to be a potentially decent enough rehab period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Llewellyn played in three of Wales&#8217; four internationals last month but now joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cew4rn0qk4yo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">captain Jac Morgan<\/a> on the sidelines ahead of the Six Nations in eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old missed two matches earlier in the campaign for Gloucester but Skivington said this was a new injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Versatile Joseph has played in all six of Gloucester&#8217;s Prem fixtures since signing this summer and started on the wing for their latest European match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[He] got his ankle caught between a couple of bodies. He&#8217;s non-weight bearing at the moment. The fact he&#8217;s on crutches probably isn&#8217;t a great sign,&#8221; Skivington added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester are back in European action on Saturday with a trip to Munster before returning to the Prem on 19 December &#8211; away at Leicester &#8211; followed by a home fixture with Saracens on 27 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cherry and Whites do however have vice-captain Arthur Clark and Jack Clement available for the first time since the opening match of the season in a boost to their forward pack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cz68n3g67p8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to BBC Radio Gloucest&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}