{"id":113655,"date":"2025-11-02T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113655\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:50:11","slug":"barrett-brothers-significant-casualties-for-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113655\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrett brothers significant casualties for All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Blacks skipper Scott Barrett and his brother and vice-captain Jordie are significant casualties from the team\u2019s victory over Ireland in Chicago today.<\/p>\n

Lock Scott left the Soldier Field pitch after only three minutes with a badly cut leg and Jordie Barrett followed after 15 minutes with a high ankle sprain and knee ligament damage.<\/p>\n

Second-five Jordie will have a scan after the team arrives in Edinburgh for the Test against Scotland \u2013 the All Blacks were scheduled to fly out hours after their 26-13 victory over the Irish at Soldier Field <\/a>\u2013 and will be a big doubt to play at Murrayfield and, indeed, the week after against England at Twickenham. <\/p>\n

The All Blacks’ final Test is against Wales in Cardiff and there is a good chance the tour is over for Jordie.<\/p>\n

Head coach Scott Robertson said Scott Barrett\u2019s leg was cut by a sprig. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how long that takes [to heal] but it\u2019s a decent one,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n

Jordie\u2019s ankle and knee injuries \u2013 caused by an Ireland player falling on him \u2013 appear to be longer-term issues. \u201cHe\u2019s tough \u2013 he just wanted to keep running,\u201d Robertson added.<\/p>\n

First-five Beauden, the third and eldest Barrett on the field, said afterwards: “Obviously my bros are a bit beaten up. Scott had a laceration on his leg and Jordie’s high ankle [sprain] and knee didn’t look great.<\/p>\n

“I was super proud and happy with how we responded. I could have let that rattle me, seeing my two bros go off.<\/p>\n

\"Jordie<\/p>\n

Jordie Barrett winces in pain after hurting his leg during the All Blacks’ win over Ireland. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

“I was impressed with how we stayed connected and stayed aligned on what we wanted to achieve, and we came away with the right result.”<\/p>\n

The All Blacks\u2019 comeback victory \u2013 their third in a row against Ireland \u2013 was achieved via a dominant final quarter during which they scored three of their four tries.<\/p>\n

With Leicester Fainga\u2019anuku slotting in well as Jordie\u2019s replacement in the midfield \u2013 Quinn Tupaea moved from centre to second-five \u2013 and Josh Lord an able replacement for Scott, the All Blacks got full value from their reserves bench.<\/p>\n

Front row replacements Tamaiti Williams, Samisoni Taukei\u2019aho and Pasilio Tosi, loose forward Wallace Sititi, halfback Cortez Ratima and outside back Damian McKenzie also contributed extremely well to a victory that kept the All Blacks\u2019 hopes of a fifth Grand Slam alive.<\/p>\n

The win did not come without controversy, however, with Ireland lock Tadhg Beirne sinbinned and then red carded for what appeared to be an act of self-preservation as he braced for unexpected contact with Beauden Barrett.<\/p>\n

In the third minute of the Test, Beirne\u2019s shoulder connected with Barrett\u2019s head and Beirne was yellow-carded in a sanction upgraded to red. <\/p>\n

Barrett had received a pass from halfback Cam Roigard that appeared forward \u2013 and that made the officials\u2019 decision-making process all the harder to understand. <\/p>\n

“I spoke to Tadhg after the game and I was gutted for him, to be honest,” Barrett said.<\/p>\n

“It was one of those unfortunate parts of the game. I didn’t expect the ball. I was hoping that Cam would have played the other option.”<\/p>\n

\"Beauden<\/p>\n

Beauden Barrett shakes hands with red-carded lock Tadhg Beirne after the Test at Soldier Field. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

Barrett said Beirne had “no other option” but to take the contact.<\/p>\n

“He didn’t intentionally put a shoulder on me. I can’t hide from the fact that I copped a shoulder to somewhere up there, that’s what happened, but I’ll support him in terms of mitigating whatever happens next,” Barrett added.<\/p>\n

“I don’t feel there’s any intention there, it’s just unfortunate.”<\/p>\n

Ireland coach Andy Farrell said: \u201cI\u2019m all for the safest way possible for the game to move forward. So you\u2019ve got to be careful what you say in that regard. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut to me if you look at it in real time, I don\u2019t know why it was transferred to that [red]. Obviously, they\u2019ve got their reasons and I\u2019m not privy to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me it\u2019s a forward pass in the first place. How that inputs your decision after that\u2026 but it doesn\u2019t matter any more does it?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got a red card and we actually dealt with it pretty well to be fair.”<\/p>\n

Ireland scored a penalty and a converted try while a man down and led 10-7 at the break. After edging further ahead in the second half with a penalty, the All Blacks came back with tries from Williams, Sititi and Roigard.<\/p>\n

Asked about the red card, Robertson said: \u201cIt was definitely a process wasn\u2019t it? They got to where they got to \u2013 to the letter of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pressed on whether it was justified, he would only say: \u201cIt was a red card wasn\u2019t it? Yeah, so it was a red card.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Blacks skipper Scott Barrett and his brother and vice-captain Jordie are significant casualties from the team\u2019s victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[789,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-113655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-all-blacks","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}