Super 14 - Injury List
One of the things that pisses me off about getting information on the Super 14 is the number of websites you have to visit to get up-to-date. There is no website (to my knowledge) that doesn't have a local flavour sometimes to the detriment of the other two countries involved.
Super14.com is about the closest but not 100% reliable, so for SAF news I go to Planetrugby and supersport.co.za, Oz I tend to rely on SMH's site rugbyheaven, while home it's the Herald and Xtramsn (who have two of the better rugby journos in Hinton and Johnstone) - and the radio on.
That's a farkin' lot of websites to go to on the daily rounds during the Super 14 season, so as a service to mankind, each week I will give the injury list. While player injuries can sometimes be over-emphasised when assessing a team's chances in an upcoming rugby game, they do need to be noted. And keeping tabs on them in a 14-team competition where there is not one all-encompassing website is friggin' time-consuming.
Numbers refer to starting positions if it can be reasonably expected if fit would start. So without further ado (any additions/corrections would be welcomed) - season injuries in red, returning players in green and updates since list originally published (i.e. newsflashes) for the week in yellow:
BLUES - none
CHIEFS - 5 Robinson (calf, one game?), 8 Lauaki (broken wrist, return unknown), 11 Kinikinlau (hamstring 1 week), 13 Kahui (shoulder, 1 week?)
HURRICANES - none
CRUSADERS - none
HIGHLANDERS - 10 Evans (knee, probable return next week), 15 Horton (rib injury 2 weeks)
WARATAHS - 1 Dunning (knee, 6 weeks), 4 Kanaar (knee - season), 5 Vickerman (off season surgery, Week 8+), 8 Lyons (knee, 3 weeks)
BRUMBIES - 6 Heenan (off season surgery, back Week 3?), 10 Larkham (husband duty, back next week), 16 Palavi (neck, 1 week?)
REDS - 9 Cordingley (foot surgery, Week 4?), 12 Johanssen and 21 Cooper (Discipline - one game), 14 Caleb Brown (hamstring - 2 weeks), 15 Latham (knee - season)
FORCE - none
BULLS - 4 Botha (knee/calf, return unknown), 15 van der Westhuyzen (will return from Japan mid-Feb), 16 Ralepelle (knee, 4-6 weeks), 17 Gerber (arm fracture, 4-6 weeks), 18 Dlulane (neck surgery, no date), 19 Spies (knee, one month?), 22 Welsh (hamstring), back-up props Steenkamp, Bands injured/not fit???
CHEETAHS - 1 Du Randt (off season surgery, not fit), 4 Duncan (ankle, return unknown), 5 Pieterse (broken foot - season?), 12 Goodes (off season surgery, not fit), 15 Fortuin (off season surgery, not fit)
LIONS - prop Smit, hooker Reynecke, 8 Cronje (not yet fit), 14 Jaco Pretorius (hamstring, 1 week)
SHARKS - 4 Ackerman, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 18 van der Berg (ankle, 1 week), 20 Mathie (?), Bobby Skinstad (not yet fit)
STORMERS - reserve outside backs Booi and Chavhanga injured.
Super14.com is about the closest but not 100% reliable, so for SAF news I go to Planetrugby and supersport.co.za, Oz I tend to rely on SMH's site rugbyheaven, while home it's the Herald and Xtramsn (who have two of the better rugby journos in Hinton and Johnstone) - and the radio on.
That's a farkin' lot of websites to go to on the daily rounds during the Super 14 season, so as a service to mankind, each week I will give the injury list. While player injuries can sometimes be over-emphasised when assessing a team's chances in an upcoming rugby game, they do need to be noted. And keeping tabs on them in a 14-team competition where there is not one all-encompassing website is friggin' time-consuming.
Numbers refer to starting positions if it can be reasonably expected if fit would start. So without further ado (any additions/corrections would be welcomed) - season injuries in red, returning players in green and updates since list originally published (i.e. newsflashes) for the week in yellow:
BLUES - none
CHIEFS - 5 Robinson (calf, one game?), 8 Lauaki (broken wrist, return unknown), 11 Kinikinlau (hamstring 1 week), 13 Kahui (shoulder, 1 week?)
HURRICANES - none
CRUSADERS - none
HIGHLANDERS - 10 Evans (knee, probable return next week), 15 Horton (rib injury 2 weeks)
WARATAHS - 1 Dunning (knee, 6 weeks), 4 Kanaar (knee - season), 5 Vickerman (off season surgery, Week 8+), 8 Lyons (knee, 3 weeks)
BRUMBIES - 6 Heenan (off season surgery, back Week 3?), 10 Larkham (husband duty, back next week), 16 Palavi (neck, 1 week?)
REDS - 9 Cordingley (foot surgery, Week 4?), 12 Johanssen and 21 Cooper (Discipline - one game), 14 Caleb Brown (hamstring - 2 weeks), 15 Latham (knee - season)
FORCE - none
BULLS - 4 Botha (knee/calf, return unknown), 15 van der Westhuyzen (will return from Japan mid-Feb), 16 Ralepelle (knee, 4-6 weeks), 17 Gerber (arm fracture, 4-6 weeks), 18 Dlulane (neck surgery, no date), 19 Spies (knee, one month?), 22 Welsh (hamstring), back-up props Steenkamp, Bands injured/not fit???
CHEETAHS - 1 Du Randt (off season surgery, not fit), 4 Duncan (ankle, return unknown), 5 Pieterse (broken foot - season?), 12 Goodes (off season surgery, not fit), 15 Fortuin (off season surgery, not fit)
LIONS - prop Smit, hooker Reynecke, 8 Cronje (not yet fit), 14 Jaco Pretorius (hamstring, 1 week)
SHARKS - 4 Ackerman, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 18 van der Berg (ankle, 1 week), 20 Mathie (?), Bobby Skinstad (not yet fit)
STORMERS - reserve outside backs Booi and Chavhanga injured.
Labels: 2007S14
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