{"id":12618,"date":"2026-04-10T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:00:21","slug":"sam-costelow-scarlets-fly-half-to-miss-rest-of-season-and-faces-wales-fitness-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12618","title":{"rendered":"Sam Costelow: Scarlets fly-half to miss rest of season and faces Wales fitness race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Fly-half Sam Costelow will miss the rest of the Scarlets&#8217; season after ankle surgery and faces a race to be fit for Wales&#8217; Nations Championship campaign in July.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Costelow suffered the injury during Wales&#8217; Six Nations defeat against Scotland in Cardiff in February which forced him to miss the final two games of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old had been recalled to start against the Scots and was impressive in the narrow defeat before being forced off injured. Ospreys outside-half Dan Edwards returned for the rest of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Costelow will be absent for the final four games of the Scarlets&#8217; season in the United Rugby Championship (URC) which finishes in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He now faces a battle to be fit for Wales&#8217; summer programme which starts with the uncapped international against Barbarians at Twickenham on 27 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fly-half Sam Costelow will miss the rest of the Scarlets&#8217; season after ankle surgery and faces a race to be fit for Wales&#8217; Nations Championship campaign in July. Costelow suffered the injury during Wales&#8217; Six Nations defeat against Scotland in Cardiff in February which forced him to miss the final two games of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}