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Saracens lose Alex Goode until 2025

Alex Goode of Saracens looks on as he walks with teammates to the dressing room prior to the Gallagher Premiership Rugby match between Bristol Bears and Saracens at Ashton Gate on May 11, 2024 in Bristol, England. (Photo by Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images)

Saracens veteran Alex Goode has been ruled out for 10-12 weeks after undergoing surgery on a quad injury.

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The 36-year-old pulled up in the warm-up of Saracens’ most Gallagher Premiership fixture, a 29-32 loss to Leicester Tigers at the StoneX Stadium, and was replaced at fly-half by Tim Swiel, who had only recently signed for the club as injury cover.

The injury to the former European player of the year plunges Saracens further into a fly-half crisis, with Louie Johnson also ruled out until the new year after having an operation on a biceps tear.

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Swiel had only been recruited a matter of days before the three-time Champions Cup winners hosted Leicester, and was originally scheduled to start on the bench. Goode’s injury threw him in at the deep end though, with director of rugby Mark McCall explaining after the loss that he was not even aware of some of the calls being made.

“We had a lot of disruption to deal with this week. We lost Fergus [Burke] on Wednesday and then Alex in the warm-up,” McCall said.

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“Tim Swiel hadn’t run a play with us and for him to get thrown in at the deep end wasn’t easy.

“The lads were making calls and Tim didn’t know what they were. It’s not a great situation, but he managed his way through the game and I thought he did really well.

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“Our rugby wasn’t great, but we did have the resolve and resilience and that gets you a long way.

“There’s a good way to lose and a bad way to lose and that was one of the better ways.”

Saracens face rivals Harlequins this weekend in the Premiership Rugby Cup before turning their attention back to the Premiership with a trip to Newcastle Falcons at the end of the month.

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Soliloquin 14 minutes ago
All Blacks squeeze past France to sweep July series in Hamilton

Big question!

I think they would get outsmarted by the A team, outpacked forward and depending on the form of the A team, the score would be more or less 15-20 points a higher or lower victory.

The only issue is that France has a lot of 13s, and they were all in NZ.

This weekend’s team was gassed out, so it’s also very much linked to fitness level.

Just like the ABs were tired at the end of November, while the French were rusty after just one game against Japan.

I fear they will get smashed in Paris without Dupont (confirmed to be still out) by the Springboks as it will be their first game of the international season (a nonsense to me - the biggest game will be the first)


The squad for this France A would be:

Gros-Mauvaka-Tatafu

Flament-Meafou

Cros-Ollivon-Alldritt

Dupont-Ntamack

Moefana-?(all 13s were in NZ) Costes ?

Bielle-Biarrey-Penaud

Ramos


(But if you can take players from the NZ, then Guillard and Barassi or Fickou could be in)


Against the C team:

Erdocio-Bourgarit-Slimani

Auradou-Halagahu

Fischer-Guillard-Brennan

Le Garrec-Hastoy

Fickou-Depoortere

Attissogbe-Villière

Barré


And a B team would be:

Baille-Marchand-Atonio

Cazeaux-Vergé

Jegou-Jelonch-Gazzotti

Lucu-Jalibert

Danty-Frisch

Lebel-Dréan

Buros


———

France A-France C at full fitness: 38-12

France A-France B: 28-17

France B-France C: 32-20


It seems a bit like Toulouse is kind of France A at full power last year, UBB is France B at full power last year and Racing92 is France C at full power this year.

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