The All Blacks will be without nine players for their northern tour, after prop Tyrel Lomax, hooker Samisoni Taukei\u2019aho and loose forward Shannon Frizell joined a growing injury list.<\/p>\n
The All Blacks confirmed the latest three injuries on Saturday, with selectors to name a 36-man squad on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Captain Ardie Savea (shoulder), loose forward Luke Jacobson (elbow), wingers Caleb Clarke (shoulder) and Leroy Carter (ankle), first five-eighths Ruben Love (ankle) and prop Ollie Norris (knee) had already been ruled out.<\/p>\n
Frizell left the field with a non-contact knee injury during the second Bledisloe Cup test in Sydney. A scan later confirmed he had ruptured the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in his left knee, and he faces about six weeks out.<\/p>\n
Taukei\u2019aho tore his calf after accelerating off a maul in the second half of the same test. He is expected to be out for four to six weeks, which rules him out of the November window.<\/p>\n
Lomax did not play in either Bledisloe test. He has been managing a disc injury in his neck since the Super Rugby season, and the All Blacks said the injury remained aggravated. He will stay home for treatment while it settles.<\/p>\n
Medical staff are still assessing other players, including first five-eighths Richie Mo\u2019unga, who missed both Bledisloe tests with a calf injury.<\/p>\n
The All Blacks play Scotland on November 8, Wales on November 15 and England on November 22. Those tests complete their round-robin in the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n
The championship ends with a finals weekend on November 27-29, when six tests will pit each northern hemisphere side against the matching seed from the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks will be without nine players for their northern tour, after prop Tyrel Lomax, hooker Samisoni…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[789,111,139,69,213,1745],"class_list":["post-639705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-blacks","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639705","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=639705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}