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Jonny May's second Gloucester debut lasts less than 20 minutes at Worcester

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Jonny May’s first appearance in a Gloucester shirt since 2017 lasted less than 20 minutes at Sixways on Saturday as the newly signed winger was forced off the field injured following his involvement in a red-carded tackle.

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The 30-year-old England international generated many headlines in April when he decided to rejoin Gloucester following three unfulfilled seasons at Leicester Tigers. 

However, his first run-out for Gloucester since a May 2017 Premiership appearance versus Exeter at Kingsholm was cut short less than a quarter of the way through his club’s resumption of their 2019/20 league campaign. 

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    Selected ahead of Louis Rees-Zammit in the first XV of the new George Skivington era at Gloucester, May was left lying flat out on the artificial pitch at Worcester after he carried early in the first half.  

    Tackled by two Worcester players in the 18th minute, he was left injured on the ground following the collision. With play stopped, Gloucester physios rushed to his aid while referee Christophe Ridley checked the incident with his TMO, Keith Lewis.

    Replays suggested that the shoulder of Worcester full-back Melani Nanai, the 27-year-old Samoan who came to the Premiership via the Super Rugby Blues in the summer of 2019, collided with May’s head, resulting in the red card decision. 

    With Worcester reduced to 14 players, May briefly continued before he was removed from the field to undergo a head injury assessment. He then failed to return to the action, instead taking a seat in the empty stands at the closed doors Sixways which allowed Rees-Zammit to continue in his absence. 

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    Gloucester were trailing to a first-minute Ted Hill try at the time of May’s was caught by Nanai, but they managed to turn the scoreboard around in his absence to lead 15-8 at the interval following tries from Jack Singleton and Ollie Thorley.

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    JW 2 hours ago
    'He wants players to be able to play four positions': Former All Black critiques Robertson's strategy

    (sharing duties with one of our best ever in BB puts him firmly on that pedestal).

    First, in reply to your other post, Richie was only a 2 year AB when he signed after the 19’ WC, so he would be on nothing like what BB is. Instead of re-signing in 22’ for longer with NZR, he simply extended that deal that was likely a standard 300k AB retainer, getting little extra in place for the freedom of going to the market for 24’ onwards.


    All that link was for was to show that he would have been in talks while ‘sharing’ 10 duties, as apposed to where is commonly though, like in Spew’s arguments, both after he claimed the starting jersey at Cape Town, and when it was obvious Razor was going to be the next coach. The thing I think you’re missing their is that BB wasn’t sharing, if he wasn’t the 10, he was the 15, so 100% as apposed to Richies 50%, ie correlating to a 2 to 1 valuation in their (Richies) contract value as well.


    So I can definitely understand why Richie made the call early to seek a big offer from Japan, and who really knows, maybe his performances in August, even against Japan in October were in time to still be able to bump up his value? But you never hear about these signings as theyre done, announcements are scheduled months later more than not (so a December announcement wouldn’t have left much negotiating time).


    So a four year (detractors like HHT will round up to 5) AB at the time does not get offered a sabbatical IMO, especially when they were in the process of negotiating one for Barrett (BB ended up signing in Japan with options for longer right, but NZ came to him with a deal to come back, calling it a sabbatical?). All in all and as always, your outlook is tempered and reasonable Chief, I was just sharing my picture for those that try to ‘blame’ either party.

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