{"id":278165,"date":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278165\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:32:08","slug":"all-blacks-lock-fabian-holland-to-miss-highlanders-super-rugby-pacific-campaign-july-all-blacks-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278165\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks lock Fabian Holland to miss Highlanders\u2019 Super Rugby Pacific campaign, July All Blacks tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Highlanders lock Fabian Holland dislocated his shoulder in a pre-season clash in Queenstown. Photo \/ Smartframe<\/p>\n

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All Blacks and Highlanders lock Fabian Holland needs surgery on a dislocated shoulder and will miss the entire Super Rugby Pacific season and July All Blacks tests. <\/p>\n

\n The 23-year-old was injured in last week\u2019s Super Rugby preseason clash against Moana Pasifika in Queenstown, and will have an operation
\n next week.\n <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a cruel blow for the Highlanders two days out from the start of the season, when they host defending champion Crusaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cFabian Holland has been ruled out of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season after dislocating his shoulder during the preseason match in Queenstown,\u201d the Highlanders said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201dHe will have surgery next week and is expected to return in time to be available for selection for the All Blacks tour in August.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 11 Feb, 2026 02:57 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5263,8136,1738,156248,20209,83414,52362,5809,5832,48053,14574,9812,111,139,69,13572,6327,6926,60971,213,313,6290,764,61,1533],"class_list":["post-278165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all","tag-blacks","tag-campaign","tag-dislocated","tag-entire","tag-fabian","tag-highlanders","tag-holland","tag-july","tag-lock","tag-miss","tag-needs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pacific","tag-rugby","tag-season","tag-shoulder","tag-sports","tag-super","tag-surgery","tag-tests","tag-to","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278165","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=278165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}