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Young hopeful over Daly injury
By Peter Thompson
Dai Young is hopeful Elliot Daly was not seriously injured while playing a starring role in Wasps' European Champions Cup win over La Rochelle.
Daly scored a brace of tries in a 21-3 over the Pool 1 leaders at the Ricoh Arena on Sunday, which kept Wasps firmly in the hunt to reach the quarter-finals.
The lively England international hobbled off in the second half with an ankle injury, but Wasps director of rugby Young thinks fly-half Jimmy Gopperth's damaged knee is a more serious concern.
Young said: "It's Elliot's ankle, he's walking about but we don't quite know really. Jimmy looks a little bit more serious. It's a bit of a tweak to his knee, so that's going to take a scan.
"Elliot doesn't come off for much but it's a bang that may certainly put him in doubt for the Gloucester game [on Christmas Eve]. Judging by his reaction it's not something that will keep him out for a long period.
"Every time he gets his hands on the ball you can expect something will happen. If you put him into a bit of space, he's going to finish. He is up there with the best finishers.
"They're the dampeners on what was a really good performance and afternoon. It looks like we've picked up two injuries and fingers crossed they're not too bad."
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Yet Ethan Blackadder was one of our best against the World Champion Springbok. When he came back to the Crusaders later in the season , he made a huge difference, ( a long with others like Codie Taylor), we nearly made the Play Off's. Ethan has plenty of rugby left in him. His family , Dad Todd Blackadder must be very [proud of him. Todd Blackadder was a 3 time champion captain of the Crusaders, '98, '99 and 2000.An icon in this area. Also twice captain of Canterbury , '97 and 2001 when we won the NPC and Ranfurly Shield winning captain in 2000.
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Noah Lolesio is your sort of player and that worked OK, but only because his team is far more creative than Englands for example. The highly organized Irish attack was also another that didn't require much from the 10, but that is now changing with Prendergast who is in that league mold like the most new age 10's.
So it is in fact your two which would require even more change to make the most of than Marcus Smith.
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