{"id":178566,"date":"2025-10-04T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178566\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:49:10","slug":"all-blacks-forced-into-late-change-after-training-ground-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178566\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks forced into late change after training ground injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The All Blacks<\/a> have been forced into a late reshuffle ahead of Saturday\u2019s Bledisloe Cup clash in Perth, with lock Tupou Vaa\u2019i ruled out after suffering a training ground injury.<\/p>\n

Vaa\u2019i took a knock to his right knee during Thursday\u2019s session and will return to New Zealand<\/a> for further assessment by a specialist next week.<\/p>\n

His absence opens the door for Fabian Holland<\/a> to step into the starting side, with Patrick Tuipulotu<\/a> promoted to provide cover from the bench.<\/p>\n

The injury is a blow to Scott Robertson\u2019s side as they prepare for the second Bledisloe Test, which doubles as the final fixture of this year\u2019s Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n

The Perth clash closes out what has been the most competitive Rugby Championship<\/a> in recent memory, with all four sides having traded blows across the campaign.<\/p>\n

While the Bledisloe Cup may already be secured, there is still plenty riding on the contest as Robertson\u2019s men look to bring momentum into their northern tour.<\/p>\n

The updated All Blacks match-day 23 to face Australia<\/a> is:<\/p>\n

1. Tamaiti Williams
2. Codie Taylor
3. Fletcher Newell
4. Scott Barrett
5. Fabian Holland
6. Simon Parker
7. Ardie Savea
8. Peter Lakai
9. Cam Roigard
10. Damian McKenzie
11. Leicester<\/a> Fainga\u2019anuku
12. Jordie Barrett
13. Quinn Tupaea
14. Leroy Carter
15. Will Jordan<\/p>\n

Replacements:
16. Samisoni Taukei\u2019aho
17. George Bower
18. Pasilio Tosi
19. Patrick Tuipulotu
20. Wallace Sititi
21. Cortez Ratima
22. Rieko Ioane
23. Ruben Love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks have been forced into a late reshuffle ahead of Saturday\u2019s Bledisloe Cup clash in Perth,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-178566","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\/178566","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=178566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}