{"id":174437,"date":"2025-10-02T04:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:56:11","slug":"baxters-mixed-injury-update-on-tshiunza-and-two-england-internationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174437\/","title":{"rendered":"Baxter’s mixed injury update on Tshiunza and two England internationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exeter Chiefs<\/a> boss Rob Baxter is keeping his fingers crossed while he waits for news on the foot injury suffered by Welsh international Christ Tshiunza<\/a> against Northampton<\/a> Saints last weekend. <\/p>\n

Baxter hopes it is not a case of history repeating itself for Tshiunza, who broke his foot against Sale Sharks<\/a> in his first game for the Chiefs<\/a> after returning from the 2023 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n

The 6ft 6in back-rower was forced to miss five months of action, but the club is still awaiting a full assessment of the damage suffered in the first half of the 33-33 draw at Franklin\u2019s Gardens, although they will have Ethan Roots<\/a> back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came off at half-time with a bit of a foot issue, and we are still finalising exactly what\u2019s going on there, but Ethan Roots should be fit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Gallagher Premiership<\/p>\n

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Northampton <\/p>\n

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Exeter Chiefs <\/p>\n

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Baxter has also confirmed that England<\/a> winger Immanuel Feyi-Waboso<\/a>, who scored two tries against the Saints before coming off, was just suffering from cramp.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just cramp. I mean, to be fair, Manny, he didn\u2019t play a lot of rugby last season. He then had his break post-international duty, so he\u2019s had a shorter pre-season. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe then had a little niggly issue during pre-season, which meant he wasn\u2019t flat out in training. He was deemed fit to play against Bath<\/a> but was away with England and we didn\u2019t want to put him in on one day\u2019s training.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, all things considered, I thought he did really, really well, and he lasted really well. There was a lot of running in the game and a lot of high-speed actions from him. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a bit of cramp, and he really just needs to get some game time in his legs. He\u2019s some attacking threat. It was fantastic seeing him back on the field and coming through the 80 minutes,\u201d added Baxter.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Baxter has confirmed that Wallabies stars Len Ikitau<\/a> and Tom Hooper<\/a> will be touching down in Devon next week after the Bledisloe Cup match against the All Blacks<\/a> this weekend. <\/p>\n

Ikitau will be the first to arrive and may face the Bristol<\/a> Bears next weekend, with Hooper\u2019s debut expected to be against Harlequins<\/a> a week later.<\/p>\n

\u201cFingers crossed Len Ikitau and Tom Hooper come through this weekend\u2019s game, and then they\u2019ll be kind of arriving at different times next week, and that\u2019ll start to thicken out some options in our squad as well. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re starting to look like we\u2019re getting a squad together now. Lenny\u2019s probably an outside possibility for next week. He comes out earlier in the week than Tom.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom won\u2019t be available for next week, but will be available for the week after. They should both be available for the week after.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter Chiefs boss Rob Baxter is keeping his fingers crossed while he waits for news on the foot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-174437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}