Hastings on way back after shoulder injury

ADAM Hastings is in line to return to action for Gloucester before the end of the season, four months after the Scotland outside-half had shoulder surgery.

- PAUL REES

Hastings has summed up Gloucester’s season. He started the club’s first six Premiership matches, which resulted in five victories and a last-gasp defeat at Saracens, but has only featured in one more.

That was against Leicester on Christmas Eve when he damaged his shoulder in his return game after being injured playing for Scotland against Fiji in the autumn internationals.

Gloucester have also lost centre Mark Atkinson, prop Fraser Balmain, hookers Jack Singleton, Santiago Socino and George McGuigan, and back rower Ruan Ackermann will not play again this season after injuring his knee in the Champions Cup defeat at La Rochelle.