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Watch: Painful footage of Lood de Jager injury is released
By Josh Raisey
Rugby World Cup winning lock Lood de Jager has given an update on the state of his shoulder, after he was forced from the field in the final against England in November.
The 26-year-old left the pitch clutching his left shoulder after 21 minutes of play in Yokohama, and it was later revealed that he suffered a dislocation. He has since had surgery on his shoulder, and has shared footage on Instagram of what looks like a surgeon showing how unstable his shoulder was.
The video shows the lock’s shoulder moving freely as it is manipulated in footage that some may find gruesome.
This is the second time that the second row has had surgery in 2019, after he missed three months of the Super Rugby season for the Bulls following an operation to his right shoulder at the beginning of the year.
This injury is expected to keep him out of playing for a longer period, however, and has significantly delayed his debut for Sale Sharks, for whom he signed for over the summer. However, he may still be able to feature for Steve Diamond’s side towards the latter stages of the season.
For now, this is the beginning of his road to recovery, which started with his shoulder being in a very bad state.
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Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".
But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.
The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.
Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?
Go to commentsI think they just need to judge better when it's on and when it's not. If there is a disjointed chase and WJ has a forward in front of him and some space to work with then he should have a crack every time.
If the chase is perfect and the defence is numbered up then it needs to get sent back. From memory they have not really developed a plan for what to do if they take the ball on/in the 22 with a good chase and no counter attacking opportunity.
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