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Wallabies dealt injury blow as veteran prop Scott Sio set to miss France test series
By AAP
The Wallabies have lost another veteran with prop Scott Sio ruled out of the France test series with a hamstring injury.
The 29-year-old, who has 59 test caps, suffered the injury at the Wallabies' training camp last Friday.
After scans on the weekend it was decided he should return to Canberra for further treatment, ruling him out of the three-test series, which gets underway in Brisbane next Wednesday.
Melbourne Rebels loosehead prop Cameron Orr has joined the squad at their Gold Coast base as a replacement.
The Australian team had already lost seasoned halfback Nic White after he hurt his knee at training.
Playmaker Matt Toomua, who has been battling a neck injury, returned to the squad on Tuesday after seeking treatment in Canberra, where Rugby Australia's chief medical officer Warren McDonald is based.
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I thought you meant in europe. Because all of the reasons theyre different I wouldn't correlate that to mean for europe, as in french broadcasters pay two or three times as much as the UK or SA broadcasters do, like they do for their league.
With France, it's not just about viewers, they are also paying much more. So no doubt there will be a hit (to the amount the French teams receive for only playing a fraction of it) but they may not care too much as long as the big clubs, the top 8 for example, enter the meaty end, and it wouldn't have the same value to them as the top14 contract/compensation does. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the 3 separate networks broadcast deals only went to the clubs in their regions as well (that's how SR ended up (unbalanced) I believe).
Go to commentsHis best years were 2018 and he wasn't good enough to win the World Cup in 2023! (Although he was voted as the best player in the world in 2023)
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