All Blacks sweat over Carter

All Blacks sweat over Carter

23 Nov 2012

Dan Carter picked up a leg injury at training and could miss the All Blacks’ Test against Wales on Saturday.

All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen confirmed that Carter suffered a ‘leg twinge’ at training on Thursday. The flyhalf’s availability will be confirmed on Friday.

According to reports, a recovery in time for the match in Cardiff this weekend is unlikely.

If Carter is ruled out, Aaron Cruden will step in. However, the All Blacks could have no specialist flyhalf cover because third-choice pivot Beauden Barrett is struggling with a rib injury.


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  • 1.Jeez: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 06:27 am

    Last night on the news clip Flo and HM looked quite chummy chummy… Could Flo be the long term answer to take on the captaincy?

    Could a player playing abroad be the springbok captain? At this point Brussouw wont make the team ahead of Flo, nor Burger… JDVs is a geriatric and surely wont make it until the next world cup… And he’s such a one dimensional player these days, he plays more like de Wet Barry, without the big hits…

  • 2.Gumboots: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 06:37 am

    @Jeez-1:

    You could do much worse than that! I think Flo could become qutie a good captain. Time to get him back to Newlands too.

    What are the options? Bissie? Nothing else available and anyone suggesting Britney would destroy my weekend before a ball is kicked in anger…

  • 3.Delki: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 06:58 am

    We’re quite used to winning without Carter now, this won’t be a problem.

  • 4.Delki: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 06:58 am

    Cruden is the goods and even Beaver suffices.

  • 5.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 07:04 am

    @Delki-4: only the Abs could win a world cup with their fourth choice 1st 5/8.

    Have every confidence in Cruden to do the job if necessary, and if he goes down i guess we would be looking at Weepu as barret is injured..

    should still have too much for Wales though

  • 6.Delki: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 07:07 am

    Poppa I have an inkling Wales will lift substantially for this game and may run us close.

  • 7.Jeez: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 07:11 am

    @Gumboots-2:
    Not a big fan of the Bissie idea, dont know why he made vice captain at the sharks…Hopefully Spies wont start for the boks ever again. Thank goodness, Flo, Alberts and Vermeulen clicked so well. If FDP ever gets back he’s probably the go to guy for the captaincy… but thats no long term answer either…

    Regarding the amount of rugby the SA players play, if you want to prolong your career, its probably better to play in Europe… Until the boks get central contracts (limiting their workload) having fresh players available in Europe is not a bad thing, but the captain surely must play in SA…

    HM really dont have much options for captain, but that shouldnt keep him from dropping JDV! SA rugby really need to learn from past mistakes! The poor backline play will continue with Fossil de Villiers in the mix. Drop the captain if he’s not good enough. Frans Steyn can partner with all these players: JdJ, JJP, Taute, Mapoe, Jordaan. JDV just isnt an outside center…

    Flo for captain it is then.

  • 8.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 07:27 am

    @Delki-6: yeah they always do, but that is normal for all teams…even the Boks as well…

  • 9.Sasuke: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 07:54 am

    @Jeez-1: @Jeez-7: Yes he would be a good choice. Is he a Soutie? I think that makes a difference.

    I wouldnt mind our captain playing in Europe, its a professional era and if our best players are in Europe we must pick them.

  • 10.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 07:55 am

    good player … no Goosen though! … just love the way he threw the Intercept pass -ala Earl Rose – vs the Scotish – and still got man of the match .. somewhere somehow Carter has some dirt on commentators …

  • 11.Sasuke: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 07:58 am

    @Delki-6: @poppa69-8: Always a great rivalry between Wales and All Blacks fuelled on by Kiwi coaches on both sides. Wonder if Wales will allow the Haka this time?

  • 12.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:07 am

    wales are wack this season…gatland needs to get back there

  • 13.Jeez: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:07 am

    @Sasuke-9: haha I think he’s a bilinguallion…
    Flo to captain in 2013 would be great…Then the backs can start to settle… Wonder how the players would feel about Flo being captain…?

  • 14.cane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:07 am

    @Sasuke-11:
    Springboks vs England should very interesting also.

    I just voted for Boks by 8-14 points.

  • 15.cane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:10 am

    @Transformation-12:

    He’s back now Transie.

  • 16.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:15 am

    @cane-14: England by at least 7, Aust. doing SA no favours by beating Eng, still, it has meant Bigtit hasnt been around… he oft goes missing when his team loses :lol:

    @Sasuke-11: I think Wales learned not to diss the haka :D should be an entertaining game as I think both teams have a similar approach to the game, even before Wales had kiwi coaches.

  • 17.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:21 am

    @cane-14:

    Thanks for that.

  • 18.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:24 am

    Amla out to the half pint.

    Shitpants.

    An inauspicious start to the weekend’s sport.

  • 19.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:30 am

    Amla is no Kallis

  • 20.BrumbiesBoy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:30 am

    William Webb Ellis was the last Englishman to run with the ball.

  • 21.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:32 am

    @suffer_guy-10:
    True.
    Goosen is a nobody in international rugby where as Carter, the whole world rugby community knows that Carter is the best #10,without a doubt.
    Only some clowns in SA think Goosen is as good or better than Carter.
    Suffer guy, if there was an award for fukwit of the year, you would win it hands down.

  • 22.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:35 am

    Just like McCaw winning IRB player of the year when injured/rested for most of the year …..

  • 23.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:37 am

    and Bryce winning ref of the year in NZ … lol, and a month after that he is fired …

  • 24.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:37 am

    @Hurricane-21: dont waste your bandwidth, this bloke just stepped of the ark with the other jackass..

  • 25.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:37 am

    @suffer_guy-22:
    Yep, thats how good McCaw is and just think, he did not even need to give a gold watch for a favourable outcome.

  • 26.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:38 am

    NZ not the country with the highest average IQ .. LMAO

  • 27.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:38 am

    Morning Kiwis

  • 28.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:39 am

    @poppa69-24:
    I think he is lonely. Sitting at home, bars on the windows, barbwire all over his fence.

  • 29.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:39 am

    @suffer_guy-26: of couse not, its because we let so many saffers live in NZ, they have made our average plummet..

  • 30.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:39 am

    how good he is? NZ didn’t even win the Tri Nations that year …. also later when he played for Crusaders he did nothing.. he had a decent year end tour and won the player of the year award …

  • 31.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:41 am

    @Dawn-27: kia ora Dawn.. hoe gaan dit?

    @Hurricane-28: hehehe some zoos are sooooo cruel

  • 32.Brads: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:42 am

    Wales have always been tough at home for the AB’s.

    They really do seem to grow another leg for the occasion.

    But what always amazes me is that after being beaten, despite fronting up out of all expectations, the UK media then focus on extraneous issues after every Wales or England encounter.

    Its as if they blame the haka, or some foul play incident or the after match speech as the fundamental reason why NZ somehow stole a win.

  • 33.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:43 am

    @suffer_guy-26:
    Now this is where you fall into the dumb category.
    NZ for average IQ rating 100
    South Africa rating 72

    You really need to keep quiet

  • 34.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:44 am

    @Hurricane-33: hes just proving the stats you posted.. :lol:

  • 35.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:46 am

    @poppa69-31:

    Lekker man

    It’s Friday

  • 36.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:46 am

    Maybe you cannibals should concentrate on eating the person’s brains to add to your own … instead of concentrating on the genitals.. just a thought!

  • 37.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:47 am

    oh so now stats are useful, but when we post stats about NZ’s crime rate being higher than that of SA, you shout rape? – no pun intended!

  • 38.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:49 am

    @poppa69-34: what Suffer guy doesnt realise is that we are always ahead of him, hes just made it to Friday morning, we’re about to wish friday a fond farewell.. :D

    @Dawn-35: sweet, whats doing for the weekend?

  • 39.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:49 am

    @suffer_guy-37:
    Go post your rubbish clown. You have just proven your IQ is less than the average South African.

  • 40.wp_boytjie: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:49 am

    @Hurricane-33:

    Did you exclude Bryce Lawrence from those calculations

  • 41.Brads: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:50 am

    @suffer_guy-36:
    Is that a dietary recommendation from personal experience

  • 42.wp_boytjie: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:50 am

    Can’t really talk rugby with the Kiwis at this stage , Boks are sh*te

  • 43.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:50 am

    @suffer_guy-37: yawn

    you use stats like a drunk man uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination..

    vatso mamparra

  • 44.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:50 am

    @Dawn-27:
    Howdy Dawn

  • 45.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:51 am

    @wp_boytjie-40:
    :-)
    We were averaging 95 then Bryce bumped us upto 100

  • 46.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:52 am

    This site: more bang for your ****** buck. Fullfuckingvalue right here :)

    I hope Suffer_guy and his loslappies stick around a little longer.

  • 47.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:52 am

    Ton up for Biff the Magnificent.

    Fighting stuff.

  • 48.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:53 am

    @Hurricane-45: we were at 110 then whatever moved into the country…

  • 49.Brads: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:53 am

    @suffer_guy-37:
    Well of course NZ stats are higher.

    We record all crimes, including illegal parking, not just murders, rapes and violent anti social behavior.

  • 50.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    23 Nov 2012, 08:53 am

    @wp_boytjie-42:
    They are not good…..yet
    Meaning they are a good team still but not to the standards you expect from a Bok team.

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