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Two broken legs and two more out long-term: Boks' worrying injury list
By Jan De Koning
South Africa will start their Rugby Championship campaign next month without four of their star players.
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus revealed that veteran lock Franco Mostert suffered a leg fracture in the loss to Ireland at the weekend and will not make the trip to Australia for the two Tests against the Wallabies Down Under.
Mostert will be sidelined for six weeks, meaning he is in a race against time to be back for the second Test against New Zealand in Cape Town on September 7.
Back-up captain Pieter-Steph du Toit will also miss the first Rugby Championship Test – in Brisbane on August 10.
Erasmus put Du Toit’s recovery at “four to six weeks”.
Wing Cheslin Kolbe, who also suffered a lower leg injury in the Kings Park loss, might play again in the second Test against the Wallabies in Perth on August 17.
Their World Cup-winning teammate Malcolm Marx suffered a tibia fracture when he was crock-rolled in the loss to Ireland.
Wing Edwill van der Merwe will be sidelined for six weeks with an ankle injury he suffered while playing in a Currie Cup match for the Lions this past weekend.
The good news is that flyer Canan Moodie has recovered from his finger fracture and should be available to train again next week.
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That's really stupidly pedantic. Let's say the gods had smiled on us, and we were playing Ireland in Belfast on this trip. Then you'd be happy to accept it as a tour of the UK. But they're not going to Australia, or Peru, or the Philippines, they're going to the UK. If they had a match in Paris it would be fair to call it the "end-of-year European tour". I think your issue has less to do with the definition of the United Kingdom, and is more about what is meant by the word "tour". By your definition of the word, a road trip starting in Marseilles, tootling through the Massif Central and cruising down to pop in at La Rochelle, then heading north to Cherbourg, moving along the coast to imagine what it was like on the beach at Dunkirk, cutting east to Strasbourg and ending in Lyon cannot be called a "tour of France" because there's no visit to St. Tropez, or the Louvre, or Martinique in the Caribbean.
Go to commentsJust thought for a moment you might have gathered some commonsense from a southerner or a NZer and shut up. But no, idiots aren't smart enough to realise they are idiots.
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