Highlanders v Stormers
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Highlanders:
1 Daniel Lienert-Brown, 2. Liam Coltman, 3. Siosuia Halanukonuka, 4. Alex Ainley, 5. Tom Franklin, 6. Gareth Evans, 7. Dillon Hunt, 8. Liam Squire
9 Aaron Smith, 10. Marty Banks, 11. Patrick Osborne, 12. Rob Thompson, 13. Malakai Fekitoa, 14. Waisake Naholo, 15. Ben Smith ( c )Reserves
16 Greg Pleasants-Tate, 17. Aki Seiuli, 18. Siate Tokolahi, 19. Joe Wheeler, 20. Jackson Hemopo, 21. Kayne Hammington, 22. Fletcher Smith, 23. Matt Faddes
Unavailable due to injury: Shane Christie, Luke Whitelock, Elliot Dixon, James Lentjes, Dan Pryor, Lima Sopoaga, Richard Buckman (Out for the season: Jason Emery, Hayden Parker)
http://thehighlanders.co.nz/fanzone/news/817-pulse-energy-highlanders-named-to-play-stormers
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Great to see Thompson back in the lineup. He's the best 2nd 5 in the squad and forms a decent combo with Fekitoa.
What's the go with Elliot Dixon being injury?
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@ACT-Crusader said in Highlanders v Stormers:
Great to see Thompson back in the lineup. He's the best 2nd 5 in the squad and forms a decent combo with Fekitoa.
What's the go with Elliot Dixon being injury?
Apparently a knee infection. Must be quite serious as he posted this on instagram a few days ago. Looks like a hospital bed and markings on his knee ...?
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@Stargazer It was a knee infection. Markings look like they're from the rug rats.
Always frustrating to lose a player because he didn't take care of his grazes after a game.
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@Frye said in Highlanders v Stormers:
@Stargazer It was a knee infection. Markings look like they're from the rug rats.
Always frustrating to lose a player because he didn't take care of his grazes after a game.
Not sure whether you meant this seriously, but that was not the cause. In the comments to his instagram post, he responds to a remark by Josh Hohneck, saying that it was the same as what he had in 2015. In 2015, Hohneck had bursitis in his knee, which later became infected (see article below).
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@Frye said in Highlanders v Stormers:
@Stargazer It was a knee infection. Markings look like they're from the rug rats.
Always frustrating to lose a player because he didn't take care of his grazes after a game.
Markings are dated and look to be tracking the area of swelling/infection.
Once you do a bursa through impact it can be prone to bursting again through the scar tissue. This I learned the hard way.
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@Stargazer said in Highlanders v Stormers:
@Crucial Do you know how long that usually takes? I assume he's in hospital to have it "cleaned up"?
He was on RS Breakfast this morning:
http://120.138.20.16/WeekOnDemand/radiosport/2017.04.27-07.30.00-S.mp3
And
http://120.138.20.16/WeekOnDemand/radiosport/2017.04.27-07.45.00-S.mp3
About 8mins into the first link.Seems it was grazes and foreign bodies.
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Stormers:
15 SP Marais, 14 Cheslin Kolbe, 13 EW Viljoen, 12 Dan Kriel, 11 Dillyn Leyds, 10 Robert du Preez, 9 Jano Vermaak,
8 Nizaam Carr, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (captain), 5 Jan de Klerk, 4 Eben Etzebeth (vice-captain), 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Bongi Mbonambi, 1 Oli Kebble.Replacements:
16 Ramone Samuels, 17 JC Janse van Rensburg, 18 Wilco Louw, 19 Kobus van Dyk, 20 Sikhumbuzo Notshe, 21 Dewaldt Duvenage, 22 Shaun Treeby (DHL Stormers debut), 23 Bjorn Basson.This game will be Eben Etzebeth's 50th game for the Stormers.
Etzebeth raises DHL Stormers half-century | The Stormers
Eben Etzebeth will play his 50th Vodacom Super Rugby game for the DHL Stormers when they face the Highlanders in Dunedin on Friday. The imposing 25-year-old lock, who made his Vodacom Super Rugby debut in 2012, has been named DHL Stormers vice-captain for the clash at the Forsyth-Barr Stadium with...
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some very agressive d by Stormers, up VERY flat and slowing things at the breakdown too
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Stormers FB Marais looking sharp!
Highlanders gonna have to tidy thier shit up
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Banks makes kicking goals look easy, 7-7
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think he did a bit more than push him out of the way, thnk the ref got this right...
Shut up Justin.
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Fuck off and shut up Marshall you floppy haired whiny little bitch
