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Warriors launch campaign as Fatialofa remains in a serious condition in hospital
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Worcester's Michael Fatialofa remains in a serious condition in the intensive care unit of a London hospital nearly a week after suffering a neck injury during a Gallagher Premiership match at Saracens.
The New Zealander was stretchered off the Allianz Park pitch in a neck brace and underwent surgery on Monday night to relieve pressure on his spinal cord caused by swelling.
Worcester issued a statement at the time claiming “the operation was a success and Michael is stable but remains in a serious condition and receiving ongoing care at the intensive care unit of the hospital”.
The club have now launched a support campaign for their stricken player, setting up a special email address so that supporters and well-wishers can post messages of support to Fatialofa.
“Michael and his wife, Tatiana, have been overwhelmed by messages of concern from around the world and are thankful for the support they have been given from the rugby community,” said the club.
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“Warriors have also been inundated with messages from concerned supporters and have now set up the email account so that supporters can send messages to Michael and Tatiana. Messages for Michael and Tatiana should be sent to fats@warriors.co.uk."
Fatialofa’s wife had taken to social media following his surgery, calling on people to help them with their prayers. “When the lights go out and this all fades for everyone else, our world will still be standing still & twisted upside down,” she wrote on Instagram.
“That’s why we ask for prayers now, knowing they will be what sustains us in the days, weeks, months and years to come when the real work begins.”
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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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