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Exeter provide update on the England training ground injury suffered by Henry Slade
Exeter boss Rob Baxter has provided an update on the status of the training ground injury that has made Henry Slade an England injury doubt for this Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations round five match away to Ireland.
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Slade caught the eye with his performance in last Saturday’s round four win at home to France but he reported with a training ground injury on Monday and was set to have it scanned on Tuesday to determine his available to Eddie Jones for the championship finale in Dublin.
Slade, who celebrates his 28th birthday this Friday, has been an ever-present with England this term, starting all nine matches so far in 2020/21, but it remains to be seen for certain whether he will be included when Jones reveals his England team on Thursday to face the Irish two days later.
Asked what the latest update was regarding Slade, a recent double Gallagher Premiership and Heineken Champions Cup winner with Exeter, Baxter said: “All I know is that their [England] medics reported to our medics that he pulled up in training with something around his calf, Achilles.
“The last time I spoke to Jamie Fulton, our head physio, the last he heard is England were making a decision to scan it and the results of the scan will determine his availability this weekend.
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“He has been playing really, really well as the game has opened up a little bit and he has had more opportunities that highlighted all his talents and the strengths of his game so really pleased.
“Obviously a bit of a shame that he has picked up something that at the very least it’s a kind of niggly injury. We are all fingers crossed it’s not too bad and he will be back in time to be able to feature for us is Europe. Right here and now it’s nothing too serious and he is available to play for England.
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“If you are asking do we have any choice in the matter, no. That is the EPS agreement. When the players are with England, their medical team on the players match fitness. That is how it goes. Obviously there is open communications with our medical team. There is not a lot of point in having a communication with me because it is not my decision.
“Those channels are there, they are open. As I said, I had numerous conversations with Jamie yesterday [Tuesday] about where Henry was and what the plan was for him. We were aware that there was the possibility that they were going to scan his ankle, his calf depending on where he started to present through the day.
“So as I said I am aware of what is going on but it isn’t our decision to decide how Henry gets treated with England. That’s standard.”
England forwards coach Matt Proudfoot later added on Wednesday: “Henry is doing rehab and is doing really, really well. He will be travelling with us to Dublin and we will give him all opportunity to be ready. If he keeps progressing it’s going to look good for him.”
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If Slade ultimately fails to recover in time, Ollie Lawrence is the favourite to fill the outside centre void. Uncapped Paolo Odogwu and Elliot Daly are also options for England who have added Joe Marchant to their squad as cover and he will also travel to Dublin.
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Wasnt late. Ref 2 assistants andTMO all saw it so who are you to say it was?
3 Go to commentsAre the Brumbies playing the Blues twice in a row?
3 Go to commentsBig difference from the Saders. Forwards really muscled up and laid a solid platform. Scooter brought some steel and I liked the loosie combination. Newell has been rather disappointing this season but stepped up big time - happy also to see Franks dot down. He should do that more often! Reihana had a good game and there seems to be more flair and invention with him in the saddle. McNicoll plays well from the back and is reliable plus inventive when he joins the line. Keep it up chaps!
3 Go to comments🤦♂️🤣 who cares who’s the best . All I know is the All Blacks have the star coach but have few star players now …
30 Go to commentsJe suis sûr que Farrell est impatient de jouer avec Lopez et Machenaud et d’être entraîné par Collazo… 🤭
1 Go to commentsAn on field red (aka a full red) in SRP must surely carry a bigger suspension than a red card given by the bunker as that carries a 20 minute team punishment. Had Damon Murphy abdicated his responsibility as a ref and issued both Drua players a yellow, which would have been upgraded to a 20 minute red by the bunker, that would have killed Australia and New Zealand’s push for the 20 minute red to be trialled globally from July this year.
11 Go to commentsEver so often you all post a Danny Care story that isn’t the announcement that he has finally re-signed for one more, victory tour season at Quins and I’m just like, “well you fooled me again!” My absolute favorite player ever, we need to make his final year at the Stoop (and Twickers) official already. I know he supposedly snubbed France but I won’t feel better until he signs.
1 Go to commentslate hit what late hit it wasn’t at all late and can clearly see he was committed before the tackle
3 Go to commentsChristian Lio -Willies 2 try perfomance was a standout. As was captain Scott Barrett. Up front was where the boys won it.They are a great team and players. Fantastic Crusaders , you can keep going.
3 Go to commentsI don't know how the locals feel about that? I guess if you call yourselves the Worcester Wasps that might be appease. But really we need more teams in the Premiership in my view so they are not padding it out as they are at the moment. It might curtail so many players going abroad as well
5 Go to commentsNZ 😭😭😭is certainly rivaling England for best whingers cup!😭😭😭 !!!
30 Go to commentsYup. New Zealand won 3 out of 10 world cups played. SA 4 out of 8 attempts 30 Vs 50 per cent.🤔🤔
30 Go to commentsShould've done this years ago. Change Saturday kick off times to around 11am. Up and off and back home before 3pm, limit travel time too. Allows players to actually do something else with their Saturday that's family oriented or being rugby fans they could ‘watch’ pro rugby. Increases crowds etc. How can anyone that enjoys grassroots and pro rugby have to choose between the two on Saturdays?
9 Go to commentsI bet he inspired those supporters just as much.
1 Go to commentsBen Smith Springboks living rent free in his head 😊😂
67 Go to commentsGood to hear he would like to play the game at the highest level, I hadn’t been to sure how much of a motivator that was before now. Sadly he’s probably chosen the rugby club to go to. Try not to worry about all the input about how you should play rugby Joey and just try to emulate what you do on the league field and have fun. You’ll limit your game too much (well not really because he’s a standard athlete like SBW and he’ll still have enough) if you’re trying to make sure you can recycle the ball back etc. On the other hard, you can totally just try and recycle by looking to offload any and everywhere if you’re going to ground 😋
1 Go to commentsThis just proves that theres always a stat and a metric to use to justify your abilities and your success. Ben did it last week by creating an imaginary competition and now you did the same to counter his argument and espouse a new yardstick for success. Why not just use the current one and lets say the Boks have won 4 world cups making them the most successful world cup team. Outside of the world cup the All Blacks are the most successful team winning countless rugby championships and dominating the rankings with high win percentages. Over the last 4 years statistically the Irish are the best having the highest win rate and also having positive records against every tier 1 side. The most successful Northern team in the game has been England with a world cup title and the most six nations titles in history. The AB’s are the most dominant team in history with the highest win rate and 3 world cups. Lets not try to reinvent the wheel. Just be honest about the actual stats and what each team has been good at doing and that will be enough to define their level of success.
30 Go to commentsHow is 7’s played there? I’m surprised 10 or 11 man rugby hasn’t taken off. 7 just doesn’t fit the 15s dynamics (rules n field etc) but these other versions do.
9 Go to commentsPick Swinton at your peril A liability just like JWH from the Roosters Skelton ??? went missing at RWC
14 Go to commentsLike tennis, who have a ranking system, and I believe rugby too, just measure over each period preceding a world cup event who was the longest number one and that would be it. In tennis the number one player frequently is not the grand slam winner. I love and adore the All Blacks since the days of Ian Kirkpatrick when I was a kid in SA. And still do because they are the masters of running rugby and are gentleman on and off the field - in general. And in my opinion they have been the majority of the time the best rugby team in the world.
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