Barritt blow for Poms
10 Jun 2012
Brad Barritt has been ruled out of the second Test against the Springboks with an eye injury.
According to the RFU, the England centre had a successful operation on a lacerated eyeball and will join the squad in Joburg later this week. He will be back in full training at the start of next week and available for the third Test in PE.
England are still waiting for further news on fullback Mike Brown, who injured a thumb while trying to prevent the Boks’ second try at Kings Park.
21 Comments
10 Jun 2012, 19:19 pm
This dragon, is the the Wynand Olivier of the England team
10 Jun 2012, 19:21 pm
What actually happened to his eye? Saw him coming off the field with massive swelling around the eye
10 Jun 2012, 19:28 pm
@Chris4Lions(Chris4Lions)-2: Looked at the wrong thing and got an elbow
10 Jun 2012, 19:37 pm
from rugby365
England arrived in Johannesburg, ahead of the second Test against South Africa, to the news that star centre Brad Barritt has undergone surgery.
Barrett suffered a facial injury in his team’s 17-22 loss to the Springboks in Durban at the weekend – the first encounter in their three-Test series.
The Boks and English will go head-to-head in Johannesburg and then Port Elizabeth on the next two Saturdays. England also play the SA Barbarians in two midweek matches – in Kimberley on Wednesday (June 13) and Potchefstroom (Tuesday, June 19).
Barritt is the major casualty from England’s first tour match, when he was forced from the field after 53 minutes of the defeat in Durban with heavy swelling to his eye.
The England midfielder revealed on the social network, Twitter, on Sunday that he had gone under the knife.
“Thanks for all the messages! Had a small op this morning to repair a laceration of the conjunctiva in my eye. Will heal very quickly!” Barritt told his followers on Twitter.
Apart from Barritt, England were still waiting for further news on the fitness of fullback Mike Brown, who suffered a hand injury while trying to prevent South Africa’s second try.
England head coach Stuart Lancaster said that his charges are set on revenge in the second Test.
“The boys are disappointed because they lost,” Lancaster said, adding: “They want to win, that is the primary emotion at the moment.
“But when we look back on it, at half-time we were definitely in a positive mindset and we felt we had the better of the first half, even though it was only 6-6.
“The boys are certainly very positive and the good thing is we have already seen one or two areas we can fix up.
“The players are talking about it already and that is a good sign. They are not downcast and they are feeling there is no chance of turning up next week and not winning.
“If anything, this will be their motivation to right the wrongs we did in this game.”
The players who did not feature will get their chance to stake a claim for a place in the second Test in a tour match against the Barbarians in Kimberley on Wednesday.
Lancaster said “We need the midweek boys to pitch up and play well, put pressure on us and make sure we have got some good selection decisions to make.”
10 Jun 2012, 19:51 pm
Had a feeling he was going to get roughed up in this game.
10 Jun 2012, 20:19 pm
he had a lekker shiner there…
10 Jun 2012, 20:24 pm
Looked like them Pomergranites were a hard lot. Boys must be sore but happy
10 Jun 2012, 21:01 pm
didnt f hougaard come out of that same passage of play with a broken face too?
10 Jun 2012, 21:08 pm
Why did Wynand dye his hair,I did not even recognise him,thought blondes had more fun?
10 Jun 2012, 21:40 pm
It was Estebeth who cleaned him out just before he cried off the field. If Hougie wasn’t so quick to waste a penalty perhaps Barritt would have been spared some punishment.
10 Jun 2012, 21:44 pm
@Rage(Rage)-9: Coetzee and Spies were wearing the same style head bands – I can understand why people mistook Spies for having a good match.
10 Jun 2012, 22:06 pm
@RL(RL)-11: spies did have a good match.
10 Jun 2012, 22:27 pm
@roobarb2(roobarb2)-12: he was ok, not wonderful.
that pushing and shoving at 56 mins was hilarious. the poms were getting shoved and yanked around by eben and they SHAT themselves hahahahahahahaha
10 Jun 2012, 22:59 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-13: agreed, but on the stats alone he was at least as good if not better than the rest. nobody was great yesterday, but i am more than happy with the lot of them.
11 Jun 2012, 00:34 am
Mike Brown has been ruled out of the tour as well so unfortunate finally got his chance and bang has ligament damage on his thumb
So Ben Foden will move to full back and possibly see Strettle/Money come back on the wing
Talk of Tuilagi playing 12 with Jonathan Joseph at 13
Well I bloody hope so!
I hope Danny Care starts hes been the best SH in UK he should have started yesterday hes miles better than Ben youngs who atm hasnt yet rediscovered that form he had last year
11 Jun 2012, 04:53 am
Barritt out; Brown out; Abendanon on the way over.
11 Jun 2012, 04:56 am
And Kirchner unlikely.
11 Jun 2012, 05:39 am
@RL(RL)-11:
11 Jun 2012, 10:30 am
@JL1(JL1)-1: If you truly think that Barritt is their Olivier then you are an effing tool. Barritt is ten times the player that Olivier will ever be.
11 Jun 2012, 15:40 pm
@RL(RL)-10:
One doesn’t get an eye laceration from an elbow. Looks like he may have been gouged?
11 Jun 2012, 15:46 pm
@ufo(ufo)-4: “STAR centre Brad Barritt” (emphasis added)
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