Super 14 Injury List Week 6

Anybody who plays prop could probably get a gig in Brisbane at the mo' - although whether you'd want to is a different matter. With all the media comment on how badly the Aussie teams are doing, a perusal of this list from week to week partly gives you answers - the Reds, Tahs and to a lesser extent the Brumbies have all had problems and the only Oz team that hasn't - the Force - are performing at (possibly above) expectations.

The Super 14 tests a team's depth in their squad. I'm also starting to wonder about pre-season fitness programmes as year after year a team like the Crusaders seem to get through without major dramas on the injury front and it can't be just co-incidence.

BLUES – 11 Tuitavake (hamstring)
CHIEFS (BYE) - 4 Gibbes (calf, Week 7?), 13 Kahui (shoulder), 13 Ta’auso (neck), 15 Anesi (neck - season), 21 Lavea (knee ligaments, Week 8?)
HURRICANES - 13 Umaga, 17 Fairbrother (shoulder - season)
CRUSADERS (BYE) - none
HIGHLANDERS – 11 Waqaseaduadua, 21 Hore (ribs), 22 Zampach (broken foot), 22 Clare (broken leg)
WARATAHS - 1 Dunning, 4 Kanaar (knee - season), 5 Vickerman (knee - season?), 7 Waugh (ankle – season), 16 Polota-Nau (elbow, Week 7?)
BRUMBIES – 4 Campbell (stress fracture foot, Week 12), 6 Heenan (off season surgery - return unknown), 10 Larkham (chest, Week 8), 13 Mortlock, 14 Rathbone (possible), 16 Palavi (neck - retired), 21 Carraro (broken hand)
REDS - 1 Holmes (shoulder - season), 3 Blake (ankle surgery next week – season), 5 McMeniman (ankle - Week 8), 9 Cordingley (foot surgery, Week 7), 12 Andrew Brown (punctured lung, Week 7) 12 Hynes, 14 Veratau (hip), 15 Latham (knee - season), 15 Schifcofske (hand, Week 10), 16 Moore (knee - Week 8), 17 Coutts (shoulder - season), 17 Warren (neck), 17 Mathieson (neck), 22 Johansson
FORCE - none
BULLS - 12 Olivier (knee – return unknown), 15 Roets (knee, Week 11), 16 Ralepelle (knee – season), 17a Gerber (arm fracture, Week 11), 17b Bands (calf, Week 8?), 18 Dlulane (neck - season), 19 Spies (knee, Week 11), 22 Welsh (hamstring).
CHEETAHS – 1 du Randt (knee, doubtful), 2 Strauss (shoulder - season), 3 Du Plessis (shoulder, doubtful), 4a Duncan (ankle, return unknown), 4b Nel (knee, Week 12), 5 Pieterse (broken foot - season?), 12 Goodes (off season surgery, not fit), 15 Fortuin (off season surgery, not fit)
LIONS - 3 McKenzie (return unknown), 14 Willemse (return unknown)
SHARKS – 12 Barritt (hand, doubtful), 14 Steyn, 15 Montgomery (thigh, 1 or 2 weeks), 20 Mathie (?)
STORMERS – 8 Van Niekerk (knee - Week 7+), 11 Jantjes (returned home), 15 Russell (concussion), 16 Liebenburg (returned home), 17 Harris (ankle), 22 Seconds, reserve outside backs Booi and Chavhanga injured.