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Bristol confirm the damaging extent of Harry Randall's ankle injury with England
By Liam Heagney
Bristol have confirmed that Harry Randall suffered a syndesmosis injury to his ankle while training with England and will be out of action for up to eight weeks. The 23-year-old Bristol No9 was called up by Eddie Jones for the first time in January when he announced his 28-strong squad for the Guinness Six Nations tournament.
However, having not been involved in the matchday squads for the opening two games against Scotland and Italy, the uncapped Randall was then injured at training on the weekend of February 20.
Lam was unsure of the extent of the damage when he spoke at his midweek media conference last week, saying: "I’ll comment once I know the length of time he is going to be out for."
Now that length of rehabilitation is known, leaving the Bristol coach frustrated that what could have been an incredible developmental experience for his youngster didn't turn out the way they would have wanted.
"Unfortunately, Harry is going to be out another seven, eight weeks, which is frustrating," reported Lam. "He had a syndesmosis injury at training with England. It was that weekend we were playing London Irish and he was on the break. So he did it there.
"At the moment it is eight weeks (rehab). The surgeon is comfortable that it doesn't need surgery, otherwise it would have been twelve weeks gone. We saw him and a couple of others down there in the gym this morning (Wednesday), so he is trekking away on that road to recovery.
"The biggest challenge we are going to face certainly is Harry has played no rugby since January 9. By the time he gets back it is going to be twelve weeks, three months of no rugby at all, so that is going to be our challenge to get him back." Randall was replaced in the England squad for their round three preparations against Wales last week by Northampton’s Alex Mitchell, another uncapped half-back.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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