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Botha ankle injury more serious than suspected. I heard on fox sports instead of 1-3 weeks 3-5 week injury.
Peter de Villiers came off early against Wales, suspected rib injury
Pretty sure he stayed in the coaches box all game. His cousin Jean de Villiers came off though.
It will be interesting to see what the Boks do if Matfield's hamstring injury was anything more than a twinge. If he is out for a week or two they could be forced to replace Botha. I doubt they can risk starting any games without a reserve lock if Matfield and Botha are both unavailable.
Should put Digby in here. Having operation on his fractured thumb today Tues 13th, will miss a few games.
What kind of operation do they do on a fracture? thought they'd just put it in a cast. Maybe they're bolting him together. With rebuilt Drew Mitchell we're going to have some cyborg wingers.
England's rugby World Cup hopes suffered a major setback when key prop Andrew Sheridan was ruled out of the tournament with a shoulder injury sustained in the opening victory over Argentina.