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Ardie Savea out for six months

Ardie Savea. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

All Blacks loose forward Ardie Savea has revealed he will miss the majority of the 2020 Super Rugby season.

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Savea will undergo surgery on a knee injury he sustained during the All Blacks’ World Cup semifinal defeat to England.

The 26-year-old, who was one of the stars at the World Cup, revealed the devastating news via an Instagram post.

The post read that he will be sidelined for five to six months and miss ‘the majority of the Super Rugby season’.

“Thought I’d let you guys know that I’ll be getting surgery on my knee that I injured in the semifinal,”

“Unfortunately will be out for 5-6 months so will miss the majority of the Super Rugby season with my Canes brothers.

Savea’s absence is certainly bad news for Hurricanes, who already lost their mercurial playmaker Beauden Barrett to the Blues.

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Nonetheless is will hand opportunities to up-and-coming flank Du’Plessis Kirifi and other loose forwards like Gareth Evans, Vaea Fifita, Reed Prinsep and Murphy Taramai to prove themselves.

The Hurricanes kick off their Super Rugby campaign with a tricky challenge against the Stormers at Newlands on February 1.

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JW 1 hour ago
Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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