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Adam Hastings to exit Gloucester and join Glasgow Warriors
By Neil Fissler
Scotland international Adam Hastings has secured a return to North of the Border and is re-joining former club Glasgow Warriors when his contract with Gloucester runs out at the end of the season.
Hastings, 27, the son of Scotland legend Gavin, started his career at Bath before moving to Glasgow in 2017, establishing himself as the lynchpin of Dave Rennie’s ambitious Scotstoun outfit.
RugbyPass understands that Hastings, the third member of his family after his father and uncle Scott to play for Scotland, was close to staying at Gloucester before talks stalled, allowing Glasgow to nip in with a late offer.
He hopes to get his career back on track following an injury-ravaged three years in Gloucester that had restricted him to just playing 16 games in all competitions in the last two seasons.
In the last 18 months, he has needed four operations on shoulder, ankle and knee injuries, which started in his last appearance for Scotland against Fiji in November 2022.
Hastings has made six appearances for the Cherry and Whites season this season, scoring 51 points, including a try on his last appearance in a win over Castres in the Challenge Cup a month ago.
Hastings is even weighing up seeing a witch doctor in a bid to put his injury problems behind him: “My sister bought me a voucher to see a shaman in Barcelona, a witch doctor, so I'll need to use that in the summer, maybe.
“I just went on this run of injury after injury. I just couldn't quite believe it was happening, to be honest. You hear about boys having these injury troubles, and you always think, 'that will never be me’.
"But then I'm there with my fourth operation of the year, kind of staring down the barrel,” he said after making his latest comeback from injury.
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I would like to see Kirifi given a chance. It is how good some one is not how big they are. Tom Christie for the Crusaders is so good. Like Du Plessis. Matt Todd was a huge part of successful Crusaders and Canterbury teams, statistics consistently up there. Matt played when South African teams were in the comp. Good enough equals big enough. As Hamish also says Ethan Blackadder will be in the mix. He has been in great form for the Crusaders this year. Two weeks ago against the Reds, he was awesome. His team mate Cullen Grace is playing so well in all facets . Great line out jumper at the back too.
Go to commentsBullsh*t.
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He didn’t directly criticise a referee(FACT), but the effect of his comments was a huge attack on officials at the Dublin match (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) and citing commissioners cynically (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) phrased to avoid Galthie landing in hot water (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION). He attacked individual players himself (MIGHT BE A FACT) (they are not protected) and the FFR head attacked the officials (MIGHT BE A FACT). The ref has a choice (OPINION) of doing the right thing and red carding the player and risking his own safety (OPINION) and that of his family (STUPID UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION). Or fudging it (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) and kicking it out to the TMO (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION). The TMO, like the ref, pretends (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) its just a poor tackle and leaves it (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) to the citing commission.
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