{"id":900025,"date":"2026-09-21T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900025\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:40:14","slug":"all-blacks-captain-savea-to-miss-wallabies-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900025\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks captain Savea to miss Wallabies Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">All Blacks captain Ardie Savea will need surgery after dislocating his shoulder in the South Africa series and will miss \u200cnext month&#8217;s Bledisloe Cup Tests against Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The All Blacks on Monday gave \u200cupdates on 10 players, including the inspirational No.8, who were injured during the four-Test \u200cseries against the Springboks, which New Zealand lost 3-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the Wallabies 2026 Test season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The statement said the timeline for Savea&#8217;s return to play would be determined after the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Surgery on a dislocated shoulder normally requires four to six months recuperation, which would also rule Savea out of \u200cthe second half \u200cof the \u2060Nations Championship in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">His fellow loose forward Luke Jacobson \u200bwill be sidelined for four to five months by an elbow tendon injury, ruling him out for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Winger Caleb Clarke has also played his last match this year with a ruptured shoulder tendon keeping him out for five months, while \u2060prop Ollie Norris is slated to return \u200cfrom \u200ba knee cartilage injury in time for the Super Rugby pre-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Anton Lienert-Brown, who suffered \u200ba knee \u200cinjury, will return in four to six weeks, a similar recovery period to his \u200bfellow centre Billy Proctor, who fractured a shoulder blade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">A third centre, Quinn Tupaea, could face the Wallabies after being listed as one to two \u200bweeks \u200baway from recovery from his knee \u200bissue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Flanker Anton Segner (ankle-joint inflammation) will also be \u200cback in a couple of weeks, while hooker George Bell, who was sent home from South Africa with a calf injury, scored a hat-trick of tries for Canterbury in the National Provincial Championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">New Zealand host Australia in Auckland on October \u200b10 with the return match in Sydney the following week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Australia relinquished the \u200bBledisloe Cup in 2003 \u2060and the All Blacks have held it since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Blacks captain Ardie Savea will need surgery after dislocating his shoulder in the South Africa series and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[10751,64,63,760,85,468472],"class_list":["post-900025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-all-blacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900025","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=900025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}