All Blacks backs Richie Mo’unga and Fehi Fineanganofo have both been ruled out of the Bledisloe Cup Tests with injuries.<\/p>\n
Fineanganofo sustained a concussion and a hamstring strain in the Bay of Plenty match against North Harbour in the final round of the NPC regular season.<\/p>\n
While he passed the original head injury assessment during the game, he has failed subsequent assessments meaning he will have a mandatory 12-day stand-down period.<\/p>\n
Scan results have also confirmed an upper hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
Canterbury and Crusaders back Chay Fihaki will join the squad as an injury replacement.<\/p>\n
First five-eighth Richie Mo’unga sustained a calf injury during Tuesday’s training and scans have revealed a tear. His return to play is yet to be determined and will be dependent on his functional progression over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
No decision has yet been made on whether an injury replacement will be brought in for Mo’unga.<\/p>\n
The squad is without Ruben Love who will have ankle surgery.<\/p>\n
Beauden Barrett and Josh Jacomb now appear to be the options to start at first-five against the Wallabies at Eden Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Blacks backs Richie Mo’unga and Fehi Fineanganofo have both been ruled out of the Bledisloe Cup Tests…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-623651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623651","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=623651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}