{"id":192192,"date":"2025-10-05T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192192\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:12:10","slug":"barrett-to-return-lomax-to-miss-northern-tour-for-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192192\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrett to return, Lomax to miss Northern Tour for All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the Rugby Championship<\/a> finishes for another season, attention can be turned to this year\u2019s end-of-year Northern Tour for the All Blacks<\/a>, which includes a grand slam of Ireland<\/a> in Chicago, Scotland<\/a> in Edinburgh, England<\/a> in London and Wales<\/a> in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

With the All Blacks set to depart for Chicago in a couple of weeks, head coach Scott Robertson<\/a> has provided an injury update from camp in Perth, after a busy Rugby Championship campaign.<\/p>\n

The All Blacks were without first-five Beauden Barrett<\/a> in Perth, but Robertson tells reporters he will travel on the end-of-year tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll be fine for the end of the year,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n

Robertson also confirmed that Tupou Vaa\u2019i<\/a> will miss the tour with a knee injury, maybe requiring surgery when the team get back to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was tough, you know, he clicked his knee the week before and got through training, and then just stood up and then locked on him, and obviously, we\u2019ll see the surgeon.\u201d<\/p>\n

All Blacks Prop Ethan de Groot and winger Caleb Clarke<\/a> will both overcome their injuries to be available on the end-of-year tour, with both progressing well during the week.<\/p>\n

The long list of injured players for the All Blacks will also force the coaching staff to bring in some replacements, with Tyrel Lomax<\/a>, Emoni Narawa<\/a> and Noah Hotham<\/a> all confirmed to be missing the tour with injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we\u2019ve got a good understanding [of replacements] and obviously we have the All Blacks XV<\/a> team to select, along with Jamie Joseph<\/a> and their crew.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we did with on the background, and they\u2019ve been watching NPC and all the players, and he\u2019s informed there. So that\u2019s a tough team to pick as well because there\u2019s been some great performances.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ireland <\/p>\n

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New Zealand <\/p>\n

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When asked about this year\u2019s tour, Robertson is excited to coach an All Blacks team in a grand slam, as he explains that it doesn\u2019t come round too often.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah it\u2019s pretty cool. We noticed it\u2019s not often you talk to some of the old All Blacks have been on it and had a crack at it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time I looked at the stats, there\u2019s only been a couple and a few decades from memory that was Wayne Smith\u2019s chipping away, and it\u2019s very difficult, but it\u2019s a great opportunity for us, and we\u2019ve got an exciting squad to go over there and play some good footy.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, going through Chicago on the way, some Kiwis have managed to find a few business trips in Las Vegas as well. It\u2019s beautiful, the gift of touring, so it\u2019ll be great to have a lot of Kiwis in Chicago and then follow us up north.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Rugby Championship finishes for another season, attention can be turned to this year\u2019s end-of-year Northern Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-192192","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\/192192","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=192192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}