Brumbies lose another wing
26 Apr 2010
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Brumbies lose another wing
Alfie Mafi has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a fractured leg.
Mafi picked up the injury in the Brumbies’ 19-12 loss to the Waratahs last Saturday after a tackle from scrumhalf Josh Holmes. This is the second wing the Brumbies have lost after Francis Fainfo has also been sidelined with a season-long injury.
Mafi said his opposite number Lachie Turner took advantage of his injury to score the decisive try.
‘Turner must have known I was limping and was in pain and must have called a cross-field kick. As I turned to run and chase, I just couldn’t run. [It was] pretty much over from there, and I watched him run in and score a try,’ Mafi told smh.com.au.
Veteran Stirling Mortlock, who has missed the last three weeks because of a back injury, is expected to replace Mafi in the squad.
Tahs sweat on Horne
The extent of Rob Horne’s glute injury will be determined after a fitness test on Monday.
Horne was a late-minute exclusion from the Tahs’ team who beat the Brumbies last weekend in Sydney. With three rounds left before the play-offs, head coach Chris Hickey is hoping to have the centre back in time.
‘If we played him [against the Brumbies] and he reinjured it, that could have been his season finished,’ Hickey told smh.com.au. ‘We will run him [in the fitness test on Monday]. How he goes in that will determine at what stage he is at. I guess with his history we are a bit cautious.’
It will be a big blow if Horne is ruled out as Sekope Kepu and Adam Freier will miss the rest of the campaign after suffering injuries last weekend.
This thread will be updated throughout the course of the day.
6 Comments
26 Apr 2010, 07:39 am
wheels coming off at brumbies
26 Apr 2010, 08:07 am
The weekend papers mentioned some dissension in the ranks.
Where there’s smoke there normally is a fire.
26 Apr 2010, 08:08 am
Steve Walsh cost them a win this past round against the Tahs.
26 Apr 2010, 08:27 am
Fire Andy Friend! He can be compared to NAKA!
26 Apr 2010, 09:03 am
All the focus on the Force’s string of injuries has really had the Brumbies’ horror run overlooked.
Injuries this year have included George Smith, Peter Kimlin, Mitchell Chapman (back now luckily), Valentine, Toomua, Lealifano, Andrew Smith, Mortlock (hopefully back next week), Fainifo, Taumopeau, now Mafi and potentially Huxley too (came off early with a hamstring injury).
No wonder they haven’t been playing to their best.
Added to that, Steve Walsh’s attitude toward Ben Alexander and even the captain Hoiles was just unprofessional, pure and simple, and cost the Brumbies the match.
As an aside, what’s the go with everyone’s name appearing twice, once in brackets?
26 Apr 2010, 09:35 am
twice (twice) ?
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