Carter blow for ABs

Carter blow for ABs

24 Nov 2012

Dan Carter will miss the All Blacks’ Tests against Wales because Achilles injury.

All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen believed the flyhalf suffered a leg injury at training on Thursday. However, further medical examinations revealed that Carter suffered an Achilles injury.

This means Aaron Cruden will start at 10 against Wales. Beauden Barrett passed a late fitness test after struggling with a rib injury all week and will find his place on the bench.

The duo should also feature in the match-day squad against England as Carter is likely to be sidelined next week too.

‘We got him scanned with an ultrasound and an MRI this morning and there is a bit of swelling there so we’ve taken the precaution to withdraw him from the game,’ said Hansen. ‘It looks like there’s probably a 50-50 or maybe 60-40 chance [he'll miss the England test] so we’ll just wait and see what happens.’


12 Comments

  • 1.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 09:25 am

    Fortunate for the Welsh Dragons

  • 2.Bok fan: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 09:40 am

    Had an awesome season. The Carter and Mccaw combo has been as deadly as ever

  • 3.Brads: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 09:48 am

    It is impressive the way most of the the top teams coddle their players these days rather than pump in pain killers and squeeze an extra game out of some poor sap who ends up with worse injuries than he deserved.

    Carter will play through to the next world cup via player management that is organized at all levels of NZ rugby.

    The 6 nations purse string holders have the flip side view of player management, which doesn’t include test rugby as a priority.

  • 4.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 10:36 am

    @Brads-3:
    The All Blacks definitely set the blueprint regarding player contracting and management.
    Strange all the rest still lags so far behind.

  • 5.Nils: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 11:29 am

    No matter now but shame if he misses English game.

  • 6.Brads: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 11:36 am

    @Nils-5:
    That would be disappointing for me as a Kiwi.

    Stephen Jones would find some way of explaining it as a weak selection decision by the inferior body of people who inhabit NZ

  • 7.CharlesM: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 12:09 pm

    @Brads-6: Don’t get me started on Stephen Jones: he hates everything south of London !!

  • 8.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 12:34 pm

    @CharlesM-7:
    Reckon he’s the reason they invented the mute button on the remote

  • 9.BrumbiesBoy: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 12:54 pm

    @nortierd-8: When he was born the doctor slapped his mother.

  • 10.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 12:57 pm

    @BrumbiesBoy-9:

    Ha ha, geez to think how he might have sounded as a baby, well probably the same as he sounds today

  • 11.Nils: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 13:10 pm

    @Brads-6: Since The Times started to request for money to read the paper, I haven’t read any Jones venom since and obviously haven’t missed a thing.

  • 12.Brads: Reply to this comment
    24 Nov 2012, 13:16 pm

    @Nils-11:
    I am with you on the reading issue, and surprisingly I haven’t felt deprived.

Keo.co.za has always promoted uncensored views, but has never tolerated racist or crass outbursts. Come on guys and girls. If you can't moderate yourselves or each other then I am going to be forced to regulate the posts and enforce a registration process for comments. The choice is yours.

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