All Blacks anxiously wait for scans on latest injuries

Scott Robertson and his coaching staff may be thankful they’ve developed depth in the past two years for the All Blacks, as they anxiously await scan results on some key players.

The current All Blacks injury list is a hefty one before the latest setbacks, including Wallace Sititi, Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Peter Lakai, Tamaiti Williams, Asafo Aumua, Scott Barrett and Caleb Clarke.

Some are long-term, but some are likely to return in the Rugby Championship in a month’s time, but the All Blacks will be hoping that recent injuries to Tyrel Lomax, Beauden Barrett and Luke Jacobson aren’t major.

Jacobson pulled out of the third and final Test against France in Hamilton with a quad injury in the warmup, unable to play in his first Test of 2025, after spending the first two weeks of camp working through a concussion.

“Just one of those things, it’s one of those innocuous events, like you just come out of the maul, Luke did and said his quad was gone, so Ardie to eight and Dupes to seven straight away,” Robertson told reporters in Hamilton.

“It was a change, but we really feel for Luke, because it was a big night for him at home.”

Barrett, who was injured in training last week, missed the third Test match due to an injury to the same left hand that he hurt during Super Rugby Pacific 2025 with the Blues.

Robertson said at team naming on Thursday that they were waiting on scans, but confirmed to media post-match on Saturday night that the public would find out the extent of the injury in the coming days with a media release.

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Barrett was seen warming up in Hamilton prior to the third Test, but catching the high balls relatively gingerly, avoiding contact with his left hand, which was heavily strapped.

“I’m pretty sure it’ll be out on a media release, and I can’t actually medically say exactly how long it will be, but it’ll be a few weeks for it to heal.

“It’s the same hand and the same fracture,” Robertson said.

For Lomax, who himself had just returned from a minor calf injury that kept him out of the first two Tests, picked up a niggly thumb injury in Hamilton.

Robertson said that Lomax will need an X-ray on that thumb in the coming days, but didn’t know the extent of the injury.