{"id":606983,"date":"2026-09-21T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606983\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:10:11","slug":"all-blacks-confirm-shoulder-surgery-for-injured-captain-ardie-savea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606983\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks confirm shoulder surgery for injured captain Ardie Savea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">All Blacks captain Ardie Savea faces an uncertain return to rugby this season after it was confirmed the All Blacks captain will need surgery on his injured shoulder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Savea dislocated his shoulder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/06\/saveas-injury-adds-to-all-blacks-woes-after-defeat-to-boks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during the All Blacks 29-24 loss<\/a> to the Springboks on the greatest rivalry tour in South Africa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">It was confirmed by the All Blacks today that the loose forward would need surgery on his shoulder, with a timeframe for his recovery not expected to become clear until after the surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/15\/all-blacks-to-miss-two-key-loose-forwards-for-bledisloe-cup-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">miss the two-Test Bledisloe Cup series<\/a> against Australia next month, with the first match against the Wallabies at Auckland&#8217;s Eden Park on October 10. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Savea&#8217;s injury adds to the All Blacks&#8217; casualty list, with Luke Jacobson and Caleb Clarke also sidelined for the rest of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Jacobson was recovering from an elbow tendon injury \u2014 picked up in the same match as Savea \u2014 while Clarke was recovering from a ruptured shoulder tendon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Both were expected to be out for around five months and would also miss the Bledisloe Cup series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Blacks captain Ardie Savea faces an uncertain return to rugby this season after it was confirmed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[789,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-606983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-all-blacks","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606983","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=606983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}