Carter crocked
29 Mar 2008
The Crusaders’ aspirations of a seventh Super Rugby title took a knock when they learned Dan Carter will be out for at least six weeks.
Carter injured his ankle in the narrow 20-13 victory over the Hurricanes on Friday. X-Rays have confirmed there is no break, but there has been sufficient damage to sideline the flyhalf for a substantial period.
“He will be unable to bear weight on the ankle during the initial stages of his recovery. Dan’s injury is of a similar nature, but of possibly increased severity, to that which was suffered by [Crusaders halfback] Andrew Ellis earlier in the campaign,” Crusaders doctor Tony Page said.
“Once the swelling has reduced, Dan will be reviewed and we will have a clearer picture of the likely time-line as to when he will be able to resume training.”
The Crusaders are already without Stephen Brett who injured his shoulder in the win over the Cheetahs. Coach Robbie Deans may look to move Leon MacDonald into the flyhalf position.
38 Comments
29 Mar 2008, 17:51 pm
Ag shame.
29 Mar 2008, 19:20 pm
Karma boys.
Sooner or later the luck has to run out for Carter & McCaw.
They are the lifeblood of the Crusader and All Black teams that they play in.
Without them the Kiwis may be as low as the Aussies are right now.
29 Mar 2008, 19:45 pm
Latest news is now 2 games. In any case NZ has No.10′s all over the place….they may not be as good as Carter, Brett, and Donald, but they’re still better than anything in SA,
Patrick.
29 Mar 2008, 20:02 pm
#3
Yeah Evans is pretty good too but Butch wins World Cups…can’t ask for more than that
29 Mar 2008, 20:32 pm
Yep Patrick our weakness is flyhalf, after butch not much out there.
29 Mar 2008, 21:00 pm
Time now to test the theory that one person doesn’t make a team.
29 Mar 2008, 22:22 pm
No 2. SPOT ON.
Lets see how the world cup chokers do without Carter. Crusaders still a great team though.
29 Mar 2008, 22:25 pm
6 bok and lion fan
Not a good test as we have lost 2 great players for the same position
29 Mar 2008, 22:29 pm
7 Bullsmaakseer
The Crusaders don’t play at the world cup (you idiot) and if they did they would have a better coach.
29 Mar 2008, 22:36 pm
No 9. You stupid drol…..you’re correct, and neither do the All Blacks play at the World Cup.
29 Mar 2008, 22:45 pm
No 2 is still spot on.
Looking at the Sharks and Stormers, it is just a matter of time before SA teams will dominate Super Rugby. Why? The Sharks and Stormers started to follow the NZ teams’ example to buy South Sea Island players. These players will definately strenghten our teams depth and the Bulls showed last year that a good bench and depth win crucial games.
Come on Cheetas, Bulls, Lions…start recruiting these guys.
29 Mar 2008, 22:54 pm
Bullsmaakseer,
Could you tell me which “South Sea Island Players” that NZ has bought. I can’t actually think of anyone, but I bow to your better knowledge on the subject……please tell us ALL who these bought players are,
Patrick.
29 Mar 2008, 22:56 pm
crusaders is a class team and they will show why by winning this s14 without brett and carter. im a stormers fan but you have to give due credit when a team plays brilliant rugby.
29 Mar 2008, 23:00 pm
the islanders are born in new zealand and dnt know any other rugby…and thr 1s that arnt born here move here wen they like 2 or 3
29 Mar 2008, 23:35 pm
Crusaders — SIX titles already and unbeaten log leaders on their way to a seventh. What would every Yarpie side would give to “choke” like this, hey?
The only Yarpie side to ever win a S12/14 title — and only once — is currently heading straight back to the cellar they lived in for so long that they spraypainted “Home Sweet Home” on the walls.
30 Mar 2008, 00:47 am
TheTackler
Methinks your parents kept you in the cellar.
How the hell did you get out?
30 Mar 2008, 01:28 am
10 Bullsmaakseer
Who are the Super14 chokers loser boy!
Seems from all your posts here that you know little about New Zealand or rugby.
30 Mar 2008, 02:23 am
Yea, Bullsmaakseer sounds pretty ignorant if he thinks NZ rugby will really suffer without Carter. Honestly, on form, perhaps Carter would be shifted to 12 for the ABs anyway, with Evans on at 10. Dual Flyhalves each proficient on different feet – has the potential to be devastating!
30 Mar 2008, 03:45 am
#15 Yes Tackles, the same arrogance that had two cities fighting to ‘host’ the coming home party for the ‘victorious’ All Blacks a few years back are the same NOW shown by the Crusaders in already advertising semi and FINAL tickets for the Super 14…some people never learn do they!
The sooner Kiwis learn that setting yourself up for a fall just means that everyone will be rooting against you…
PS Tackles, jy is ‘n plank, gaan maak die bedpanne skoon en los die grootmense om te praat!
30 Mar 2008, 03:46 am
Churchie, how many times are you going to fall for the same trick. Feck man, don’t give in, walk away. Ignorance appears to be incuerable…
30 Mar 2008, 08:24 am
#2 comment by– what a load of horse siht, no one man makes any team, not even Lomu. We have beaten Sth Africa by a reasonable margin over the years and still hold a very healthy lead which I doubt will ever change in our lifetimes and will probably increase as the guard changes over the years. We had the lead prior to Carter and McCaw, will contine to have it while they are here and maintain it when they have gone. Maybe you need to be a little more objective as to what your missing from your fifteen instead of laying the success of the AB’s on only two of ours. As for those who agree with you are only showing their need to lay the blame for their teams shortcomings on the success of two individuals rather than those of who they support. Wake up and smell the fragrance of lifes flower- its called reality!!
30 Mar 2008, 11:40 am
hmmmmmmm, some touchy kiwi’s in our midst
30 Mar 2008, 11:44 am
whatever- choice is simple- touchy for good reason or just blatantly stupid for none.
30 Mar 2008, 11:52 am
Capt, some of your boys get electric shocks when the WC is mentioned. Why is that? Still never ceases to amaze me how “you” guys build yourselves up for such big falls. Plan your s14 ticker tape parade now at your peril. The fat lady has not yet sung mate.
PS, Tackler, who really gives a *** about the S14 dude, it’s all about BILL
30 Mar 2008, 12:10 pm
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of Bulls and Shorks fans when their two teams battled it out for the S14 final less than a year ago…
30 Mar 2008, 14:59 pm
tough luck carter, tough luck brett, but this is a side that despite losing abs: mauger and gear, are undefeated, at the top of the table. saders (deans) will simply rejig the backline with McD at 1st5 and move ginger to fullback. the only flaw maybe ralph for experience over maitland.
as for the rest of the drivel posted by the plaas jaapies: the boks face 4 years of misery *again* before they can get their hopes up again. reason? abs will be top as usual with a huge threat coming from aus with deans at the helm.
30 Mar 2008, 16:10 pm
Don’t speak to soon Mongrel. I think you will be surprised by SA’s strength at test level over the next 4 years as DEFENDING WORLD CHAMPIONS. Anyway, you don’t want to eat any more humble pie do you (kiwis don’t have to eat it too often so when they do, they “choke” on it).
2 World Cups in 4 attempts is not a bad return for the Springboks. Your team has won 1 in 6. That’s pretty poor for such a vaunted team. And despite what anyone tells you, the World Cup is still the holy grail of rugby.
Don’t write off an SA side this S14 just yet either. In case you hadn’t noticed, Sharks are also unbeaten and the Stormers are starting to look good under a good coach.
30 Mar 2008, 23:02 pm
#24
So Whatever its all about bill is it,who cares about the rest of the games that happen in between.
How about the next time you post it should be in 2011,thats the next rugby match you will watch isnt it?
30 Mar 2008, 23:03 pm
Oh and about selling tickets to the Super 14 semis and finals,i live in Christchurch and ihave heard anything about it,hmmmm sounds like a made up dont know what they are talking about bull shitting lie
30 Mar 2008, 23:58 pm
deans no doubt will work through this carter injury. sounds like gard will be brought in to provide cover for mcdonald. just another player from the crusader factory.
agree with some posts above. carter imo still isnt the top 10 in nz. evans is starting to own the jersey.
other big news for kiwis is that james ryan, the really solid lock, has pretty much turned his back on the AB’s saying he doesnt want any more to do with rugby in nz.
so now the AB’s have ali and nobody else besides some retreaded locks are guys that are still a long way from test level.
31 Mar 2008, 00:55 am
Hey Jappies, Tomsta Wooden spoon, what happened in the game against the BaBaa’s????? Great start to your WC Chump team eh??
James Ryan what, get alife, what about the other 6 locks ???
31 Mar 2008, 00:58 am
#29 Do yourself a favour and visit the Crusaders website, there you will see it in all its glory…”Secure your semi and finals ticket TODAY.”
You know where you can stick your “hmmmm sounds like a made up dont know what they are talking about bull shitting lie”…
31 Mar 2008, 01:07 am
#32
Ok clown its there but then before ya blow ya mouth of read the rest of it.
It says “Purchase tickets to 3 of the remaining 4 Crusaders home games and you’ll earn the right to buy Semi Final and Final tickets (should we host one or both of these events) before they go on sale to the general public.”
Read it again “Should we host one or both of these events”
Obviously you just read what you want to read
31 Mar 2008, 01:25 am
No Hurricane, you called me a liar and I proofed you wrong but its ok, keep up the name calling if it makes you feel better. I am now walking away…
31 Mar 2008, 01:59 am
Koos
Sorry for the name calling,not good.
But this what alot of people do here is what you just did.Post the stuff you want everyone to read and not the full story.
31 Mar 2008, 06:51 am
Taking pleasure in ANY rugby player being injured is rather unsportsmanlike, I’d say.
Did anyone in SA hear rugby fans of other nations chuckling with glee when Pierre Spies was forced out of rugby with the same medical condition which killed his father? Or when any Bok has been hurt?
Is taking pleasure in a rugby opponent being medically incapacitated a uniquely Yarpie characteristic? Are Yarpies just that much more unsporting than anyone else?
31 Mar 2008, 07:28 am
whatever – I dont know how you bought ‘bill’ into this. I am simply replying to rendundant comment by ‘ comment by’ @2#, so re read it and then jump in with the boots on boyo. Secondly, I dont give a rats arse about the WC, never really have. I believed NZ had a great chance of winning it like they have won just about everything else for the last three years prior and anyone who thought they were not hot favourites going into the cup is jsut a liar. The Boks won the cup, yes, but in a more embarrassing display of rugby than in the fashion that NZ lost to France- at least we had a game and some tries were scored. I have been happy for the Boks to pick it up, but dpnt come the nancy boy gripes with me.I dont sow rotten seeds like ‘comment by’, like stting here behind a computer screen saying the only reason the Bulls won last year was because our main players were out. No, the team we field is the team we field and once the whistle goes games on no matter who is on the field.
What does piss me off is idiots who constantly try to undermine the AB’s and NZ’s unchallenged success in rugby with feeble little speels of diatribe that has no foundation,lacks any substance and shows the measure of intelligence by the words they write.
Constructive critiscism crumples no realist but cynical dribble weakens the foundations of what we love and brings nothing to the table except an empty plate.
31 Mar 2008, 08:11 am
Even without Carter , the Saders will still win …. they have BMT for this competition and the drive to pull it through
Carter hasnt been playing that fantastic but Evans looks very exciting prospect for the Black jersey. Will be interesting
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