Friday’s rugby news has Kane Douglas to undergo surgery, Sam Burgess leaves Bath, All Blacks visit the gravesite of Jerry Collins and Habana switches to Sevens.
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Douglas Out
Wallabies lock Kan Douglas is set to undergo surgery later this week after scans confirmed he ruptured his ACL during the World Cup final against New Zealand.
Douglas sustained the injury 15 minutes into the match after he fell awkwardly on his knee.
Douglas will continue his rehabilitation and return to play under the Queensland Reds Medical and High Performance Staff.
He is expected to miss a substantial amount of the Super Rugby season.
Douglas was one of only eight Wallabies players to play in every match at Rugby World Cup 2015, taking his career tally to 23 Test caps since making his debut for Australia in 2012.
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Burgess Leaves Bath
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AB’s Visit Collins
Five All Blacks have paid a visit to the gravesite of the late Jerry Collins with the William Webb Ellis Cup.
Sonny Bill Williams, Jerome Kaino, Dan Carter, Ma’a Nonu and Liam Messam visited just after Collins’ birthday on the 4th of November.
Photographs were posted on social media with the players posing with the Cup next to the gravesite.
Ma’a Nonu posted a photo onto Twitter with the caption “Happy belated bday to our fallen uso.We love you JCterminator”.
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Habana Switches to Sevens
Bryan Habana is one of many Springboks players to have been selected in the 34 man Blitzbok squad.
Lwazi Mvovo, Damian de Allende, Oupa Mohoje, Juan de Jongh, Warren Whiteley, Cornal Hendricks, Francois Hougaard and Ryan Kankowski were all also named in the squad.
“This is the perfect plan, and it looks good on paper,” said Springboks Sevens coach Neil Powell.
“But like all plans, we may get to halfway and see we need to change it. Still, we are thankful to the unions for making the players available for us.”
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