{"id":41568,"date":"2025-08-04T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:24:08","slug":"all-blacks-scrum-half-roigard-out-of-argentina-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41568\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks scrum-half Roigard out of Argentina Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">All Black Cameron Roigard has been ruled out of two Tests in Argentina, New Zealand Rugby announced Sunday, with the scrum-half joining a growing injury list ahead of the Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Roigard suffered a stress fracture to his foot while playing in last month&#8217;s 3-0 home series sweep of an under-strength France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wallabies.rugby\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Secure your home tickets for the 2025 Rugby Championship today!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Scan results confirmed he won&#8217;t be fit for Tests against the Pumas in Cordoba on August 16 and Buenos Aires a week later, robbing New Zealand of a speedy half, who has emerged as a key player under coach Scott Robertson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The 24-year-old&#8217;s availability for two home Tests against South Africa in September is unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Robertson will need to dig into his scrum-half depth when naming a 36-man squad on Monday to travel to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Noah Hotham was already ruled out with an ankle injury, leaving only Cortez Ratima available from the three scrum-halves involved in the France series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Robertson may consider a recall for 23-cap scrum-half Finlay Christie, whose last test was more than a year ago against England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Another candidate is Highlander Folau Fakatava, who made two bench appearances against Ireland in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Robertson had previously said first-choice prop Tyrel Lomax and winger Caleb Clarke will miss the Argentina Tests as they recuperate from injury, along with Hotham and back-rower Luke Jacobson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Captain Scott Barrett is likely to be included after missing the last two French Tests with a calf muscle complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">His brother and playmaker Beauden Barrett is also expected to be available after shaking off an injury, along with key forwards Tupou Vaa&#8217;i, Wallace Sititi and Tamaiti Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Black Cameron Roigard has been ruled out of two Tests in Argentina, New Zealand Rugby announced Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[10751,64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-41568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-all-blacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41568","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=41568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}