2012 Super Rugby Injury List

Injury list is in our wiki HERE.

This is mostly for people doing their fantasy rugby picks but it is also nice to remember the fallen. Feel free to put in certainties if you know them but also people who might not play.

Certainties not to play week 1: Lakky Turner (out for the season- balls!), Cooper (knee still fucked), Rocky (hamstring still fucked), Vickerman (still recovering from shoulder surgery)

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McCabe will definitely miss week 1 (shoulder recovery). Should hopefully be back for the Brumbies' second match in round 3.

Siliva is also out for week 1 (knee recovery). unsure how many weeks he'll miss though?

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Brumbies current injuries:
Moore - shoulder - hopeful for round 1
Alexander - elbow - hopeful for round 1
McCabe - shoulder - hopeful fle round 3
Silvia - knee - unknown
Coleman - sternum - trialling vs ACT XV
Faingaa - ankle - unknown/scans (may require surgery)
Auelua - knee - unknown/ awaiting fitness test

I think Speight is also injured but not certain.

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Any kiwi's keeping close track of the teams over there? likewise with our south african readers?

Lachie had a season-ending testicle injury?!? Quick, someone call Cyclo!

2012 Australian Super Rugby players' injuries

Brumbies

Alexander, elbow - round 1
Auelua, ?
Coleman, sternum - 3 weeks
C Fainga'a, ankle - ?
McCabe, shoulder (what else?) - 1 week
Moore, shoulder - 4 weeks
Siliva, knee - ?

Rebels

Beale, hamstring - 2 weeks
Mortlock, ditto - ?

Reds

Cooper, ankle - 6 weeks
Davies, too fast
S Fainga'a, ankle - 2 weeks
Hanson, ankle - ?
Humphries, too old
Hynes, knee - probably season
McDuling, ACL - 6 months
Toua, ?
Wallace-Harrison, ?

Waratahs

Alcock, cut eye - 2 weeks
Elsom, hamstring - 8 weeks
Fitzpatrick, knee - season
McCutcheon, hamstring - 1 week
Mitchell, ankle tendon - 8 weeks
Pakalani, ?
TPN, busted - ?
Turner, hamstring thingy - 6 months
Vickerman, shin stress fracture - season, permanent

Western Force

Brown, shoulder - ?
Cummins, leg - ?
McCalman, shoulder - 2 weeks
Rapana, shoulder - season
Sharpe, calf - ?
Shepherd, hamstring - 1 week
Wykes, hamstring - 1 week

Force
Jordan Rapana (shoulder reco) out for season
Willie Ripia (burnt hands) out for season

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Word on the street is Vickerman's knee is shot and he's Going to be forced to retire. Absolutely sucks!

Toua is for a month to 6 weeks.
Wallace-Harrisons must not be too serious because nothing has been said about it.
Faingaa should be back for the first round, but may not start.

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Superxv site says..

Woodcock (Blues) is out for the first few rounds,
Nonu (Blues) still in Japan (so no injury but wont be around),
Messam (Chiefs) may be out for rd1 at least,
McCaw (Crusaders) out for some time,
Dan Carter (Crusaders) - on track but may miss early rd's,
Guildford (Crusaders) again not an injury but still out,
Hoeata (Highlanders) 1st two months of SR season with ripped pec muscle,
As for the Canes I cant find anyone listed with an injury

Of course I am only going by their main news articles so there could be some more but these are the main ones I found.

Really Lindommer only one from the Tah's.

Elsom
Mitchell
Vickerman

Sure there is more..

Lindo, the hamstring is a tendon - it goes from muscle to bone. Ligaments go from bone to bone.

And for the pedants out there, the hamstring is not "a tendon" either.

Do some of those muscles connect to bones directly without a tendon? I would have thought there were 7 tendons, on three muscles. Cyclo, I don't mean to be disagreeable, it's a genuine question.

I've only ever referred to the whole collective (muscles and tendons) as the hamstrings, and I was under the impression most of the injuries were in the muscle belly (or muscle/tendon conenction)

You guys are stupid, just remember the song! the leg bone's connected to the knee bone, the knee bone's connected to the hip bone, the hip bone's connected to the stomach bone..

So you're working your way up the body then, cyclo? Is it gastro next?