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Kolisi a major World Cup worry for Springboks


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A knee injury has ruled South Africa captain Siya Kolisi out of the rest of the Super Rugby season and threatened his participation in the build-up to the World Cup later this year.

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Kolisi went off towards the end of the first half of last Saturday’s 34-22 home win over the Otago Highlanders, but coach Robbie Fleck said afterwards he did not think the injury too significant.

However, Kolisi is out of the Stormers’ team to play away against the Lions in Johannesburg on Saturday and told local reporters he will miss the rest of the campaign.

“I’m going to be in the brace for six weeks‚ which is the alternative to surgery‚” he told Timeslive.

“I’m hoping to be ready to play in time for the Rugby Championships.”

South Africa host Australia at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on July 20 in the opening game of this year’s Rugby Championship – after the conclusion of the Super Rugby season.

The Stormers must also do without Springbok lock Peter- Steph du Toit, whose shoulder injury keeps him sidelined for the next three weeks.

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The two injuries are a major blow to the Cape Town team’s hopes of making the June playoffs. They are in a tight battle for the leadership of the South African conference.

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Nations Championship: 'The data shows the north has finally caught up with the south'

Fact: the gap between the North and the South has narrowed considerably - that I get. However, determining that only selecting only Home grown players or playing in the home country is is the optimal strategy is a bit of a toss up and highly reliant on the economies of the home union. I do understand that England and to a lesser degree Ireland selects home based only. The top 14 is a massive threat to their domestic product. France would probably not be affected (the money is at home). Fiji, Argentina, Samoa, Italy and you could even argue Scotland have only benefitted from this. Their players either go overseas to learn at higher levels (Fiji, Samoa, Argentina) or players coming into their leagues to strengthen the home product and their National teams (Scotland, Italy, Japan).

South Africa used to limit its selection to the home based players, but the reality of a weak currency vs what players could earn oversees meant that you lost access to your best players at some stage of their careers, with very few exceptions. Kolbe left SA as he was considered too small for International Rugby (yes coaches/selectors view), but ironically in France he forced selectors to notice his endeavors and select him. He is only reaching 50 caps now despite being north of 30 - granted rotation and the odd injury also played a role, but for the most part it is having debuted or becoming a regular so late.



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