Northern Edition

Select Edition

Northern Northern
Southern Southern
Global Global
New Zealand New Zealand
France France

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.

ADVERTISEMENT

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.

Video Spacer

Two-time World Cup-winning prop Steven Kitshoff speaks about the neck surgery | RPTV

Video Spacer

Two-time World Cup-winning prop Steven Kitshoff speaks about the neck surgery | RPTV

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.

Fixture
Gallagher Premiership
Newcastle
17 - 12
Full-time
Saracens
All Stats and Data

“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.

ADVERTISEMENT

“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.

Related

ADVERTISEMENT

Argentina v France | HSBC SVNS Hong Kong 2025 | Men's Match Highlights

New Zealand v Australia | HSBC SVNS Hong Kong 2025 | Women's Match Highlights

Tokyo Sungoliath vs Shizuoka BlueRevs | Japan Rugby League One 2024/25 | Full Match Replay

Reds vs Force | Super Rugby W 2025 | Full Match Replay

Behind the Scenes with the Australian Rugby Sevens Team in Hong Kong | HSBC SVNS Embedded | Episode 9

The Rise of Kenya | The Report

New Zealand in Hong Kong | Brady Rush | Sevens Wonders | Episode 4

The Fixture: How This Rugby Rivalry Has Lasted 59 Years

Trending on RugbyPass

Comments

0 Comments
Be the first to comment...

Join free and tell us what you really think!

Sign up for free
ADVERTISEMENT

Latest Features

Comments on RugbyPass

O
OJohn 1 hour ago
Why Les Kiss and Stuart Lancaster can lead Australia to glory

We don’t need some failed pommy git to teach us how to play rugby. FFS.

A coach who just been sacked and who lead England to being bumbled out of their own world cup due to his foolish, foolish obsession with Sam Burgess, trying to fit a square peg in to a round hole.


It’s not surprising one of Lancaster’s favorite analysts who was with him during that World Cup disaster is pushing him for the Wallaby job tho ……


There is no doubt the Tahs will be desperate to have someone in their pocket, like Schmidt or Lancaster to be able to undermine Kiss from within the team, like Andrew Blades was undermining Ewen McKenzie. Especially after McKenzie took over the scrum coaching because Blades was so useless and the Wallaby scrum started to improve dramatically, pushing the All Blacks and Bok and Argie packs back.


Look at how well the Tahs are going with a pommy attack coach. It’s a joke. A pom trying to teach an Australian team how to run backline moves ? Have you ever heard anything so absurd !


Ryan Smith found being captain and lineout calling too much. Let him stick to the hard yakka, which he is great at. The Reds badly miss one of the world’s premier lineout operators in Izaak Rodda, thanks to kiwi Thorn of course. Who decided to appoint a non Australian born captain to the Reds, so Thorn didn’t feel so much like an outsider, instead of Rodda who deserved it being their premier player. He appointed Liam Wright instead and look how well that has worked out for Wright, greedily taking a position he not deserve.

2 Go to comments
J
Jessey Anthony 3 hours ago
Razor has an about turn on All Blacks eligibility rules

Hello, everyone, my name is Jessey Anthony am from the Australia-Queensland I was so happy to see a testimonial given by someone called Petrov Ganovish about his cheating ex-wife that wanted his father’s money so I have to contact the email of the man that helps him out in exposing her, for him to help me to expose my husband cheating and wrong deals with other women out there i had to contact PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS to assist me in the job right now, i have complete access to his phone. I got concrete evidence. it was unbelievable to see the evidence of my hubby cheating on me. Who likes to live with a cheater, I used the evidence I got to file for a divorce. I’m thankful to PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS for helping me out of my dilemma and suspicions. His services are highly rated and affordable he is best and good in his work contact him email: professionalwizardrecovery@programmer.net or professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com / WhatsApp: +44 7442 684963 Immediately for your areas of Hacking services I have to share the Good news with everyone so u can be able to know the truth of your spouse through mobile spy or phone spy and the offer other services related hacking and funds recovery. Contact him WhatsApp: +44 ( 7442 684963 ) for any type of hacking, he is a professional hacker that specializes in exposing cheating spouses and figure out your relationship status. I wish you the best. Email: professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com

12 Go to comments
J
Jessey Anthony 3 hours ago
Razor has an about turn on All Blacks eligibility rules

Hello, everyone, my name is Jessey Anthony am from the Australia-Queensland I was so happy to see a testimonial given by someone called Petrov Ganovish about his cheating ex-wife that wanted his father’s money so I have to contact the email of the man that helps him out in exposing her, for him to help me to expose my husband cheating and wrong deals with other women out there i had to contact PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS to assist me in the job right now, i have complete access to his phone. I got concrete evidence. it was unbelievable to see the evidence of my hubby cheating on me. Who likes to live with a cheater, I used the evidence I got to file for a divorce. I’m thankful to PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS for helping me out of my dilemma and suspicions. His services are highly rated and affordable he is best and good in his work contact him email: professionalwizardrecovery@programmer.net or professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com / WhatsApp: +44 7442 684963 Immediately for your areas of Hacking services I have to share the Good news with everyone so u can be able to know the truth of your spouse through mobile spy or phone spy and the offer other services related hacking and funds recovery. Contact him WhatsApp: +44 ( 7442 684963 ) for any type of hacking, he is a professional hacker that specializes in exposing cheating spouses and figure out your relationship status. I wish you the best. Email: professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com

12 Go to comments
J
Jessey Anthony 3 hours ago
Multiple clubs swarming to lure Chris Harris from Gloucester

Hello, everyone, my name is Jessey Anthony am from the Australia-Queensland I was so happy to see a testimonial given by someone called Petrov Ganovish about his cheating ex-wife that wanted his father’s money so I have to contact the email of the man that helps him out in exposing her, for him to help me to expose my husband cheating and wrong deals with other women out there i had to contact PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS to assist me in the job right now, i have complete access to his phone. I got concrete evidence. it was unbelievable to see the evidence of my hubby cheating on me. Who likes to live with a cheater, I used the evidence I got to file for a divorce. I’m thankful to PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS for helping me out of my dilemma and suspicions. His services are highly rated and affordable he is best and good in his work contact him email: professionalwizardrecovery@programmer.net or professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com / WhatsApp: +44 7442 684963 Immediately for your areas of Hacking services I have to share the Good news with everyone so u can be able to know the truth of your spouse through mobile spy or phone spy and the offer other services related hacking and funds recovery. Contact him WhatsApp: +44 ( 7442 684963 ) for any type of hacking, he is a professional hacker that specializes in exposing cheating spouses and figure out your relationship status. I wish you the best. Email: professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com

0 Go to comments
J
Jessey Anthony 3 hours ago
Six Nations: 5 things we've learned from half-way point weekend

Hello, everyone, my name is Jessey Anthony am from the Australia-Queensland I was so happy to see a testimonial given by someone called Petrov Ganovish about his cheating ex-wife that wanted his father’s money so I have to contact the email of the man that helps him out in exposing her, for him to help me to expose my husband cheating and wrong deals with other women out there i had to contact PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS to assist me in the job right now, i have complete access to his phone. I got concrete evidence. it was unbelievable to see the evidence of my hubby cheating on me. Who likes to live with a cheater, I used the evidence I got to file for a divorce. I’m thankful to PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS for helping me out of my dilemma and suspicions. His services are highly rated and affordable he is best and good in his work contact him email: professionalwizardrecovery@programmer.net or professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com / WhatsApp: +44 7442 684963 Immediately for your areas of Hacking services I have to share the Good news with everyone so u can be able to know the truth of your spouse through mobile spy or phone spy and the offer other services related hacking and funds recovery. Contact him WhatsApp: +44 ( 7442 684963 ) for any type of hacking, he is a professional hacker that specializes in exposing cheating spouses and figure out your relationship status. I wish you the best. Email: professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com

5 Go to comments
J
Jessey Anthony 3 hours ago
Six Nations: 5 things we've learned from half-way point weekend

Hello, everyone, my name is Jessey Anthony am from the Australia-Queensland I was so happy to see a testimonial given by someone called Petrov Ganovish about his cheating ex-wife that wanted his father’s money so I have to contact the email of the man that helps him out in exposing her, for him to help me to expose my husband cheating and wrong deals with other women out there i had to contact PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS to assist me in the job right now, i have complete access to his phone. I got concrete evidence. it was unbelievable to see the evidence of my hubby cheating on me. Who likes to live with a cheater, I used the evidence I got to file for a divorce. I’m thankful to PROFESSIONAL WIZARD HACKERS for helping me out of my dilemma and suspicions. His services are highly rated and affordable he is best and good in his work contact him email: professionalwizardrecovery@programmer.net or professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com / WhatsApp: +44 7442 684963 Immediately for your areas of Hacking services I have to share the Good news with everyone so u can be able to know the truth of your spouse through mobile spy or phone spy and the offer other services related hacking and funds recovery. Contact him WhatsApp: +44 ( 7442 684963 ) for any type of hacking, he is a professional hacker that specializes in exposing cheating spouses and figure out your relationship status. I wish you the best. Email: professionalwizardrecovery@gmail.com

5 Go to comments
TRENDING
TRENDING All Black's England switch hanging by a thread Hoskins Sotutu England switch hanging by a thread
Search