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Fears Jordan Petaia will be ruled out while Taniela Tupou facing HIA protocols
By AAP
The extent of Jordan Petaia's latest injury setback will be clearer after scans are completed ahead of Saturday's Test against England.
The squad arrived in London late on Monday night, with Petaia set to have scans on his hamstring on Tuesday.
The ultra-talented back looked to be returning to his confident best after a three-year period marred by injuries.
He cut a dejected figure as he limped off just shy of halftime in the weekend's tight loss to Scotland.
It's feared the 21-year-old will be ruled out of the tour, which includes Tests against England and Wales, while he had also been earmarked to play fullback for the Barbarians against Samoa before flying home.
The winger would join Tom Banks and Reece Hodge on the sideline, while fellow Queensland Reds flyer Suliasi Vunivalu's first season since switching from the NRL has also been thwarted by constant hamstring dramas.
Filipo Daugunu could get his chance in Petaia's absence, the fellow Reds back out since breaking his arm inside the first two minutes against France in July.
Taniela Tupou could still feature despite the six-day turnaround which gives him enough time to pass World Rugby's Head Injury Assessment protocols.
The game-breaking prop was jolted by a headclash in the defeat to Scotland and would be a massive loss in the Wallabies' first clash with England since their comprehensive World Cup quarter-final exit in 2019.
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Turn it up. Give me your john A game would ya!
Go to commentsI didn't really get the should tone from it, but maybe because I was just reading it as my own thoughts.
What I read it as was examples of how they played well enough in every game to be able to win it.
Yeah I dunno if Ben wouldn't see it that way (someone else would for sure need to point it out to him though), I'm more in the Ben not appreciating that those close losses werent one off scenarios camp. Sure you can look at dubious decisions causing them to have to play with 14 or 13 men at the death as viable reasons but even in the games they won without such difficulties they made a real struggle of it (compared to how good some of their first half play was). This kind of article where you trying to point out the 3 losses really would most likely have been wins only really makes sense/works when your other performances make those 3 games (or endings) stand out.
There might have been a sentence here and there to ensure some good comment numbers but when he's signing off the article by saying things like ..
and..
I don't really see it. Always making sure people are upto date with the SH standing/perspective! NZ went through some tough times with so many different perspectives and reasons why, but then it was.. amusing how.. behind everyone was once they turned a corner. More of these 'unfortunate' results returned against SA and France at the start of the RWC which made it extra tasty to catch other teams out when they did bring it. So that created some 'conscious' perspective that I just kept going and sharing re thoughts on similar predicaments of other teams, I had been really confident that Wallabies displays vs NZ were real, that the Argentines can backup their thing against Aus and SA (and so obviously the rest), and current one is that England are actually consistent and improving with their attack (which everyone should get onboard with), and I'm expecting a more dominant display against Japan (even though they should have more of their experienced internationals for this one) that highlights further growth from July. 👍
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