{"id":190633,"date":"2025-10-05T01:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190633\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T01:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:40:17","slug":"injured-all-blacks-lock-announces-update-after-training-niggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190633\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured All Blacks lock announces update after training niggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> have been riddled with injuries throughout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/the-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship<\/a> in 2025, with multiple halfbacks, wingers, and outside backs going down with niggles.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Roigard and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/cortez-ratima\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cortez Ratima<\/a> missed a couple of games early on in this year\u2019s competition, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/caleb-clarke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Clarke<\/a> has only managed one appearance in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The All Blacks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/scott-robertson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Robertson<\/a> had named lock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/tupou-vaai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tupou Vaa\u2019i<\/a> alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/scott-barrett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Barrett<\/a> this weekend, but Vaa\u2019i was ruled out of the contest late on Friday, as he picked up an injury in training during the week in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Vaa\u2019i has taken to social media to address the injury, announcing that he had torn his meniscus.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old had solidified his spot in the All Blacks starting lineup whether it be at lock or at N0.6, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiefs<\/a> forward is \u201cpretty sure\u201d his 2025 season is done.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lock not knowing for sure how long the injury will keep him out for, a torn meniscus often requires surgery which could rule him out of the end-of-year tour.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson told media in Perth last night that they had got through the game without any injuries, which is a bit of a change in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight was great, you know, like, and there\u2019s no injuries too. I was just pleased we got through without anyone having to come off a substitute for for injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the All Blacks got through Perth without any new injuries, they are still without a number of players who picked up niggles throughout the Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n<p>All Blacks prop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ollie-norris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ollie Norris<\/a> has a back injury, Caleb Clarke is nursing an ankle injury and first-five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/beauden-barrett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beauden Barrett<\/a> picked up a AC joint injury in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson is also without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/tyrel-lomax\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrel Lomax<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/emoni-narawa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emoni Narawa<\/a>, and Timoci Tavatavanawai who are all recovering from more serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks have been riddled with injuries throughout the Rugby Championship in 2025, with multiple halfbacks, wingers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-190633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}