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Joey Carbery sidelined for six weeks
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Joey Carbery's ankle injury will rule him out of action for six weeks, a source close to the Irish camp has confirmed exclusively to RugbyPass.
The injury means Carbery would miss Ireland's opening game of the Rugby World Cup against Scotland on September 22 in Yokohama and struggle to gain fitness in time for their second pool game six days later against Japan in Shizuoka.
He would potentially be available for the remaining pool games versus Russia and Samoa and the knockout stages should Ireland progress to the latter part of the competition.
It leaves Joe Schmidt with a difficult decision to make regarding the Munster No10. Carbery is the current understudy to first choice Jonathan Sexton, but he also provides cover at 15, something which is extremely valuable as part of a 31-man World Cup squad.
Carbery injured his ankle during last Saturday's match in Dublin against Italy. The playmaker was eventually replaced at 10 by Connacht’s Jack Carty, who is Schmidt's other out-half option along with Leinster's Ross Byrne.
Ireland now travel to Portugal for a warm-weather training camp before taking on England in London on August 24 and Wales home and away on August 31 and September 7.
Schmidt isn't finalising his 31-man squad until after the first match against the Welsh, giving him some time to make his decision regarding what to do with the sidelined Carbery.
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I understand, but England 30 years ago were a set piece focused kick heavy team not big on using backs.
Same as now.
South African sides from any period will have a big bunch of forwards smashing it up and a first five booting everything in their own half.
NZ until recently rarely if ever scrummed for penalties; the scrum is to attack from, broken play, not structured is what we’re after.
Same as now.
These are ways of playing very ingrained into the culture.
If you were in an English club team and were off to Fiji for a game against a club team you’d never heard of and had no footage of, how would you prepare?
For a forward dominated grind or would you assume they will throw the ball about because they are Fijian?
A Fiji way. An English way.
An Australian way depends on who you’ve scraped together that hasn’t been picked off by AFL or NRL, and that changes from generation to generation a lot of the time.
Actually, maybe that is their style. In fact, yes they have a style.
Nevermind. Fuggit I’ve typed it all out now.
Go to commentsSouth African teams need to start prioritising the Champions Cup for sure. They need to use depth in the URC.
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