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Ardie Savea out for six months
By Online Editors
All Blacks loose forward Ardie Savea has revealed he will miss the majority of the 2020 Super Rugby season.
Savea will undergo surgery on a knee injury he sustained during the All Blacks’ World Cup semifinal defeat to England.
The 26-year-old, who was one of the stars at the World Cup, revealed the devastating news via an Instagram post.
The post read that he will be sidelined for five to six months and miss ‘the majority of the Super Rugby season’.
“Thought I’d let you guys know that I’ll be getting surgery on my knee that I injured in the semifinal,”
“Unfortunately will be out for 5-6 months so will miss the majority of the Super Rugby season with my Canes brothers.
Savea’s absence is certainly bad news for Hurricanes, who already lost their mercurial playmaker Beauden Barrett to the Blues.
Nonetheless is will hand opportunities to up-and-coming flank Du’Plessis Kirifi and other loose forwards like Gareth Evans, Vaea Fifita, Reed Prinsep and Murphy Taramai to prove themselves.
The Hurricanes kick off their Super Rugby campaign with a tricky challenge against the Stormers at Newlands on February 1.
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Look there are a few unarguable facts here that are very clear. SARU was close to bankruptcy with SR, bailed out by the Lions and they need the URC and EPCR. Inclusion of SA teams in URC has been a great for for ALL concerned, from a rugby perspective and financially, moreover there is massive growth yet to come. The GP is in financial trouble and this will be the catalyst for EPCR change to further cement the Boks.
If this all plays out with even greater rewards for the urc AND the Top14 & GP via EPCR, the 6N will become 7N. Nz and Aus NEED to get their version firing with Japan & the PI’s, otherwise they will find themselves increasingly regressing…
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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