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<\/p>\nThere was a sickening head injury in Super Rugby this morning<\/p>\n
Wallace Sititi of the Chiefs is injured(Image: 2026 Getty Images)<\/p>\n
All Blacks star Wallace Sititi was taken to the hospital after suffering a sickening head injury during the Chiefs’ 46-24 win over the Queensland Reds in their Super Rugby Pacific qualifying final.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old forward required lengthy medical attention following the heavy collision with the shoulder of Reds forward Lukhan Salakaia-Loto before bouncing into the head of his teammate Sione Ahio.<\/p>\n
Sititi rolled himself into the recovery position before visibly shaking on the ground.<\/p>\n
The referee stopped the match immediately to allow medical staff to treat Sititi who eventually got back to his feet despite looking extremely confused.<\/p>\n
He was immediately taken to hospital as a result of his injury.<\/p>\n
Win free tickets to watch Fiji v Wales in Cardiff this summer<\/a><\/p>\n As a result of the incident Salakaia-Loto received a yellow card but the TMO did not upgrade it to a red, deciding there was mitigation because Sititi dropped low into the tackle.<\/p>\n Salakaia-Loto was booed upon returning to the field of play but managed to score his team’s first try.<\/p>\n But it was ultimately in vein as the Chiefs won comfortably to progress to the semi-final stage where they will host the Crusaders in Hamilton.<\/p>\n \u201cNever nice seeing your teammate like that,\u201d Chiefs captain Luke Jacobson told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n “We know he\u2019s in the best of hands, but thoughts and prayers to him and his family.”<\/p>\n Chiefs coach Jono Gibbes also told Sky Sports they were concerned about Sititi’s injury.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2018m incredibly proud of the grit,\u201d Gibbes told Sky Sports. \u201cIt was a real battle, we stayed composed and I\u2019m really proud of them.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s tinged a little bit with the incident with Wallace and, there\u2019s a big part of us that are actually thinking about him right now whilst trying to savour this moment.<\/p>\n \u201cNever nice to see one of your lads go down and suffer that way.\u201d<\/p>\n Follow all of our channels to ensure you stay up to date with the latest Welsh rugby news. Sign up to our free daily newsletter here<\/a> and our WhatsApp channel here<\/a> for all the breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a sickening head injury in Super Rugby this morning Wallace Sititi of the Chiefs is injured(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[36918,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-new-zealand-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624520","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=624520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}