Jeff Wilson is not surprised by the number of injuries suffered by the All Blacks with the players \u201cthrowing themselves into contact\u201d under new boss Dave Rennie.<\/p>\n
New Zealand\u2019s head coach has continually rotated since taking on the role from the sacked Scott Robertson earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Part of that is the new boss looking at players and combinations with the Rugby World Cup now under a year away but he has also been hampered by injuries.<\/p>\n
They have already lost Ardie Savea and Ruben Love for the season, while Luke Jacobson, Anton Lienert-Brown, Billy Proctor, Patrick Tuipulotu and Caleb Clarke are other individuals who missed out on the wider Bledisloe Cup training squad due to issues they picked up.<\/p>\n
Richie Mo\u2019unga was then ruled out of the two Wallabies<\/a> games and could miss the Nations Championship, and he has been joined on the sidelines by Leroy Carter, Anton Segner, Asafo Aumua, Ethan Blackadder and Fehi Fineanganofo.<\/p>\n Wallabies\u2019 injury issues under Dave Rennie<\/p>\n It is a lengthy injury list and is slightly reminiscent of Rennie\u2019s<\/a> time at Australia where he continually saw players go down.<\/p>\n Wilson certainly reckons that the All Blacks<\/a> head coach has them working harder than previously but is not concerned by the number of injuries.<\/p>\n \u201cFriendly fire when you get a head clash (Segner and Aumua), you can\u2019t avoid that\u2026 but there\u2019s no doubt they\u2019re asking them to put their bodies on the line and they\u2019re certainly throwing themselves into contact, consistently more than I\u2019ve seen from an All Black team,\u201d he said on The Breakdown.<\/p>\n \u201cParticularly defensively, we were a little bit on our heels from time to time over the last couple of years, but there\u2019s none of that. They\u2019re trying to improve themselves in the tackle.<\/p>\n \u201cHead clash, two guys coming around, which ruled two players out, that\u2019s just unlucky, but overall we\u2019re turning to our depth and our depth is going well.\u201d<\/p>\n