{"id":5240,"date":"2026-01-06T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:58:03","slug":"fraser-dingwall-northampton-centre-plays-down-injury-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Dingwall: Northampton centre plays down injury concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England centre Fraser Dingwall has played down injury concerns after he was stretchered off during Northampton&#8217;s win over Harlequins at the weekend.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dingwall was hurt in a tackle on Kieran Treadwell and director of rugby Phil Dowson afterwards confirmed he had been knocked unconscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was treated on the pitch for several minutes by medical staff before being carried off wearing a head brace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saints scored 10 tries as they won the game 66-21 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fraserdingwall_\/p\/DTIuEE7DCDe\/?hl=en\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in a post on Instagram<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> on Monday, Dingwall wrote: &#8220;Enjoying rugby with this lot at the moment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thanks for all the well wishes after the weekend too! I just wanted a snooze after the festive period it seemed but thankfully all OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton are two points clear at the top of the Prem table but this weekend switch to European action for an away Champions Cup tie against Bordeaux &#8211; a repeat of last season&#8217;s final which the French side won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A club update on Dingwall&#8217;s condition is expected to be given on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton have won two out of two in their group so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England centre Fraser Dingwall has played down injury concerns after he was stretchered off during Northampton&#8217;s win over Harlequins at the weekend. Dingwall was hurt in a tackle on Kieran Treadwell and director of rugby Phil Dowson afterwards confirmed he had been knocked unconscious. He was treated on the pitch for several minutes by medical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5240","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\/5240","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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}