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Two broken legs and two more out long-term: Boks' worrying injury list
South Africa will start their Rugby Championship campaign next month without four of their star players.
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Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus revealed that veteran lock Franco Mostert suffered a leg fracture in the loss to Ireland at the weekend and will not make the trip to Australia for the two Tests against the Wallabies Down Under.
Mostert will be sidelined for six weeks, meaning he is in a race against time to be back for the second Test against New Zealand in Cape Town on September 7.
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Back-up captain Pieter-Steph du Toit will also miss the first Rugby Championship Test – in Brisbane on August 10.
Erasmus put Du Toit’s recovery at “four to six weeks”.
Wing Cheslin Kolbe, who also suffered a lower leg injury in the Kings Park loss, might play again in the second Test against the Wallabies in Perth on August 17.
Their World Cup-winning teammate Malcolm Marx suffered a tibia fracture when he was crock-rolled in the loss to Ireland.
Wing Edwill van der Merwe will be sidelined for six weeks with an ankle injury he suffered while playing in a Currie Cup match for the Lions this past weekend.
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The good news is that flyer Canan Moodie has recovered from his finger fracture and should be available to train again next week.
And again…
You amended ‘fixarion’ - cheated just like a dope, juicing bok. Poor form. On the subject of which, keep at the 125 kilos. You'll get there some day.
Best wishes ya utter fcuktard
I wish just like your mom.
Fixarion? You've lost me…
No. You continue to demonstrate arrogance. I’ll just ignore you. Moving on. It’s not rocket science, it’s many years of medical studies.
Oh. So you are being quite literal about everything. Okay.
Well, if anyone would be willing to send me the x-rays (give me access), I’d have a good look and, if I didn’t understand them, I’d get an expert opinion from my network.
I have looked at many X-rays before for broken limbs and I’ve got to say its not rocket science. But if I got stuck, I’d call a friend.
Are we okay now?
And please don’t ever take me seriously.
You said “I want to see the x-rays”. This presumes that YOU can read x-rays. You did not say “I want to HAVE ACCESS to the x-rays”. So, basically, you are making stuff up.
Now I now I can’t take you seriously.
I have a very good lifelong friend who is an interventional radiologist. So I’d forward it to him and ask him what he thought.
It’s not always what you know, Carlos. It’s who you know.
Interesting to note the silence and justifications from the -“Rg is a dirty dog” crowd- in this whole croc role debacle. It was clear to see Doris’ intent when he initiated the roll. Red Card and six game ban right there
Irish be thuggy
If you think that you have the talent to review radiography, then you have hubris. I’ve attended multiple courses where professors of radiology describe x-rays and how to interpret them. When it is not so clear cut to them and an “amateur” thinks he can do it. Face plant.
Oh Ja. Canan Moodie. Forgot about that guy.
Do I need to be?
Perfect chance to get back to cycling their roids.
Why'd Marx play on for near 25 mins if he'd a ‘broken leg?’
Africa is not for sissies…
That’s what we do d!ck head.
Pap en vleis, rooinek.
Are you an orthopedist or trained radiologist?
Did Kolbe injure himself in the dive at the end?
Broken legs with a recovery time of 6 weeks?
Something’s off
Probably a fracture. Same when Sam Cane ‘broke his neck’.
Technically he did.
Thanks Dr. J P.@carlos please vett JPs credentials.
You live by the sword then sometimes you die by the sword.
Amazing that medical staff can pinpoint what causes breaks/fractures nowadays.
These things happen. The crock was bad but was it to injure another player like maybe a swinging arm or was it desparation to get the player off the ball. One thing is for sure that the next Ireland vs Springboks game will be brutal. I can understand player welfare but sometimes it goes too far eg. Sam red in wc final but this was at least two yellow cards and maybe even a red but that might have ended the contest and robbed us of a great game of rugby.
Amazing that you can be that stupid!
It's not that complicated. If you’re leg isn’t sore and then something happens and then your leg is sore and an xray confirms a fracture, chances are that thing that made your leg sore is also the thing that caused the fracture. Not 100 percent accurate as people can walk around with an u diagnosed hairline fracture that may then be made worse by an incident but you’ll be accurate in 999 cases out of 1000
In football they have a computerised system to draw an offside line I believe rugby should adopt the same to test backs offside line as the linesman or assistant refs seem to be unablle to see it.On Saturday I watched the 3 international game and defences comming up offside prevented decent bacline attacks…New Zealand the worst one or two penalties given yet defences were regularly offside
As well as forward passes. Thats would be handy.
Classy picture.
Did you pick it Jan?
Because these injuries are all for a laugh right?
How is it OK for a player to cross offside line at the side of a ruck,then return when looking to charge down a kick,yet an outside back goes a yard forward in defence then returns but it is a penalty on most occasions
That game was harder than the World Cup final. I’ve never seen Ireland at such a physical level.
So what does the resident bigoted neurologist Turlough say about his untouchables in pale green jerseys tibia breaking crock roll?
Well clearly the Boks did it to each other in training.
Jesus that’s horrific, 2 broken legs in one game. Never saw what happened to Mostert as they showed very little replay and he walked off the pitch if I remember. Did Marx play on after that with a broken tib? What a monster. I don’t think Dorris was the instigator in that. I think James Ryan barges through Doris who then fell on Marx leg while Ryan then proceeded to Croc roll him. Wishing them both speedy recoveries
Both performed a croc roll.
Both should have at least received a yellow.
Both should be cited.
Both should be banned.
For at least the same length of time as Wiese was banned for his clearance on Vincent Ross.
World rugby. Consistently making rugby safer for players my ***.
PS. Nice to see that Nigel Owen’s agreed with me.
And then Erasmus comes out and says the refereeing was high quality.
the reason given for not upgrading Doris to yellow was because of the “dynamic of the 2nd player, “Ryan.
Why should Irish players be concerned about such filthy tactics Wen they know they will protected by an English ref.