Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nIt meant the last-gasp try stood, sealing the match and the series for the Lions.<\/p>\n
Remarkably, Tizzano’s hot form last year came despite him carrying a left-ankle injury that severely limited him in several aspects.<\/p>\n
But after undergoing off-season surgery and making a quicker than expected return to full fitness, Tizzano is raring to go ahead of the Force’s season-opener against the Brumbies in Perth on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got the regenerative healing of Wolverine. I heal fast,” Tizzano told AAP.<\/p>\n
“It was meant to be three weeks in a boot, and I was out of it in a week.<\/p>\n
“I’ve just been battling away for two years with this ankle injury<\/p>\n
“The World Cup’s coming up. I felt like I was running around with a flat tyre. It feels like a flat tire until you get warmed up.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t jump on it, I just couldn’t hop on that left side, so I just had to fight through the pain.”<\/p>\n
Tizzano is a renowned workhorse, often working his body and mind to the point of exhaustion.<\/p>\n
But after receiving an ADHD diagnosis in 2023, he has since found a much better work-life balance.<\/p>\n
“I honestly couldn’t believe no one talked about me having ADHD before that,” Tizzano said.<\/p>\n
“I told my friends (after I was finally diagnosed), and they were like, ‘Mate, you didn’t have to pay someone to find that out’.<\/p>\n
“You look at my school reports: ‘Just constantly distracts others in class. Distracts others in class. Distracts others in class’.<\/p>\n
“And no one picked this up? It was very validating when I was diagnosed, and it gave me an understanding of like, ‘This is who I am. This is why I do things’.<\/p>\n
“This is like a super power of mine now.”<\/p>\n
Perth-born Tizzano grew up supporting the Force, and he is desperate to lift the club into the finals for the first time in the franchise’s history.<\/p>\n
“It would mean everything,” Tizzano said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been a Force fan for forever, and we’ve always had big hopes for the Force and big ambitions, but we just haven’t delivered on it.<\/p>\n
“We want to give back to the fans, because they’re so loyal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He’s the Western Force’s version of Wolverine, and Carlo Tizzano is set to go to another level this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,48013,11229],"class_list":["post-468366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-pacific","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468366","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=468366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}