Online Store
RBS 6 Nations Apps
RBS RugbyForce
No ALT tag specified

RBS 6 Nations match video highlights

Watch the latest Video highlights
Official Championship App

The Official Championship App

Keep on top of all the action through the official app. Includes video, news, history, stats and more...
No ALT tag specified

RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge App 2013

Click here to learn more!
No ALT tag specified

Official Online Store

RBS 6 Nations full kit range now available online
Official Magazine 2013

Official Magazine 2013

Click here to Download
No ALT tag specified
Wales make late change
31 May 2007, 12:12 pm
Wales have been forced into a late change at tight-head prop for the second Test against Australia in Brisbane on Saturday after Adam Jones was ruled out by a torn calf muscle.
Harlequins prop Ceri Jones gets his first Wales start as pre-match replacement for his Ospreys' namesake.

And that was not the end of the injury worries for Wales with coach Gareth Jenkins revealing a back injury sustained by teenage prop Jamie Corsi last week has forced them to call up Worcester's Chris Horsman.

Jenkins said: 'We are making a late change. Adam Jones took a training injury on Wednesday that's going to take him out of the Test team for Saturday and he's being replaced by Ceri Jones, who will start at number three.

'Chris Horsman is on his way and is due to be with us by 11.00am (2.00am BST) on Friday. He will fill the bench cover when he arrives.'

Jones, 29, is a regular at loosehead in the Guinness Premiership, but has also done duty on the other side of the scrum. He replaced loosehead Iestyn Thomas during last weekend's 29-23 defeat in Sydney, winning his first cap in the process.

Jenkins said: 'I don't see it as putting pressure on Ceri. I see it as an opportunity for him. He's played tighthead lots of times and he's very comfortable in that position so that's an opportunity.

'We wouldn't have planned it this way, but now it's happened we're going to take the positive out of the situation, realising we have quality cover coming over as well in Chris Horsman and we're pretty positive about our selection.

'Chris was at home when we made the call to him and was ready to put his bag on his shoulder there and then. It was a great response as far as we were concerned.'


RBS Six Nations Store

 
ADD TO DEL.ICIO.USDel.icio.usShare this page
ADD TO DIGGDiggShare this page
ADD TO FACEBOOKFacebookShare this page
ADD TO GOOGLEGoogleShare this page
ADD TO NEWSVINENewsvineShare this page
ADD TO REDDITRedditShare this page
ADD TO STUMBLEUPONStumbleUponShare this page
ADD TO YAHOO MYWEBYahooShare this page
ADD TO TWITTERTwitterShare this page
Previews & Reports
England Latest
France Latest
Ireland Latest
Italy Latest
Scotland Latest
Wales Latest
Team Statistics onlyinclude Five & Six Nations games from 1992 to the present day
Player Statistics onlyinclude Five & Six Nations appearances since 1992
© 2013 delivered by Sotic powered by OpenText WSM