Injuries

Bones

I think if the situation is dire enough for Richard Buckman to be getting mentioned, Bateman is a real chance. Fuck all difference between picking him and picking SBW on yours in 2010 and 2014.

Haaaaa.

Billy Tell

Tamanivalu has got the call up.

taniwharugby

Koala on his way home, but Crotty not, so does that mean Crotty is a chance for another game, or was he planning a holiday...

Whites72

@taniwharugby Hanson said crotty could be back for France game

MN5

@taniwharugby said in Injuries:

Koala on his way home, but Crotty not, so does that mean Crotty is a chance for another game, or was he planning a holiday...

Who's Koala? Have the AB selectors been raping and pillaging the small island of Australia for players now?

Donsteppa

@MN5 said in Injuries:

@taniwharugby said in Injuries:

Koala on his way home, but Crotty not, so does that mean Crotty is a chance for another game, or was he planning a holiday...

Who's Koala? Have the AB selectors been raping and pillaging the small island of Australia for players now?

The Koala defended about as well as Quade Cooper, so maybe it was payback.

taniwharugby

@MN5 my guess is autocorrect knows about Koalas, but not Moalas.

MN5

@taniwharugby said in Injuries:

@MN5 my guess is autocorrect knows about Koalas, but not Moalas.

Good point. Moalas are less cuddly than Koalas and very likely to attack with broken glass if provoked.

Tregaskis

@MN5 That's a cutting remark.

taniwharugby

Moala has had issues with his elbow before hasn't he?

Some pretty rotten luck with injuries for him though, is this his 2nd or 3rd injury after getting a chance with ABs?

ACT Crusader

@taniwharugby and for someone who isn't a regular feature in the 23, it's even worse because they are the guys that are at most risk of losing their spot in the squad.

Stargazer

According to this article on Stuff:

... big lock Brodie Retallick is set to rejoin them in Italy and centre Seta Tamanivalu has been called up as a midfield reinforcement.

But Retallick will be in Italy to bolster the All Blacks pack and, with the lineout a shambles against Ireland, the Chiefs stalwart could be in line to start in Rome next weekend.

Tamanivalu has been called after George Moala was forced out with an elbow injury, NZ Newswire reported.

Crusaders recruit Tamanivalu, 24, who played for the Barbarians in their 31-31 draw with South Africa in London at the weekend, will join the side ahead of their match against Italy in Rome. He has played three tests.

Moala, who pulled the ligaments off his elbow in the 40-29 loss to Ireland in Chicago, would return to New Zealand.

Second five-eighth Ryan Crotty, who strained his hamstring during the match, would stay with the team and be assessed over the coming weeks in the hope he would be available for the the final test of the tour against France, on November 26.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/86161202/seta-tamanivalu-joins-all-blacks-to-bolster-midfield-after-george-moalas-injury

Stargazer

The official media release:

http://www.allblacks.com/News/30083/tamanivalu-called-into-all-blacks-tour

ACT Crusader

"Moala pulled the ligaments and tendons off his elbow and won't not need an operation."

Not just the rugby team but the media/editing department is having a mare also...

pakman

The scouts from Herald and Stuff will be gagging to poach them!

booboo

@ACT-Crusader said in Injuries:

"Moala pulled the ligaments and tendons off his elbow and won't not need an operation."

Not just the rugby team but the media/editing department is having a mare also...

So he does need an op? ...

mariner4life

@booboo he doesn't not

Hooroo

Just reading through the Blues woes of injuries and last year the Chiefs with all the early season injuries, can any of this be put down to training and playing on rock hard surfaces for too long.

They would have been training all through Dec and Jan on essentially concrete.

Perhaps if they started the season later, you know, after the cricket season that SA, Oz and NZ play maybe there maybe fewer injuries?

Perhaps not and it's just coincidence.

nzzp

@Hooroo said in Injuries:

Perhaps not and it's just coincidence.

I think it's not that related. They don't play or train on rokc hard grounds any more - Eden Park (for instance) has a world class surface.

Rugby just doesn't lend itself to the bulking up that has come with professionalism. The impacts get so much bigger that tendons and ligaments seem to be the things that get mashed.

Hooroo

@nzzp said in Injuries:

@Hooroo said in Injuries:

Perhaps not and it's just coincidence.

I think it's not that related. They don't play or train on rokc hard grounds any more - Eden Park (for instance) has a world class surface.

Rugby just doesn't lend itself to the bulking up that has come with professionalism. The impacts get so much bigger that tendons and ligaments seem to be the things that get mashed.

I don't disagree and I think I more referring to what they are training on.

The Silver Fern

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