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Jordan Petaia ruled out for remainder of Super Rugby season, July Test series in doubt

Australia's Jordan Petaia is clobbered by Georgia's David Kacharava. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

Jordan Petaia will miss the rest of the Super Rugby season after scans confirmed the Wallabies centre will need surgery on his dislocated shoulder.

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The Queensland Reds flyer missed Sunday’s clash with the Jaguares after hurting his shoulder attempting a tackle in training.

It is the second serious setback in as many seasons for the 19-year-old after a second-round foot injury ruined his 2019 campaign.

“We’re gutted for Jordan,” Reds coach Brad Thorn said before the extent of the injury was revealed.

“He’ll return home with the squad and will be looked at for further diagnosis. It’s personally frustrating for him and also for us as a group on the field.”

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Petaia, still a month away from turning 20, is the third-youngest player to accrued minutes in this year’s Super Rugby season. Just the Waratahs duo of Mark Nawaqanitawase and Angus Bell are younger than the Reds centre.

After making his debut in 2018 as an 18-year-old, Petaia was expected to make a big impact last year but ended up playing just two games before having his season cut short.

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Petaia then went on to make his Test debut in the 2019 World Cup and had usurped James O’Connor as the starting centre by the time the knockout matches had rolled around.

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With Reds and Wallabies centre partner Samu Kerevi now plying his trade in Japan, Petaia was lining up as the senior operator in the Queensland midfield for 2020 but will now have to wait until next year to show off his talents in Super Rugby.

Petaia’s latest injury setback could also curtail his chances of lining up for the Wallabies in July.

The Reds have yet to win a match this year but will be aiming to break their duck against the Sunwolves in Brisbane this Saturday.

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WATCH: Reds utility back Bryce Hegarty will be looking to make a return to the starting XV for this weekend’s match against the Sunwolves.

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'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

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?

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