{"id":73880,"date":"2024-09-18T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/op-bound-sacha-then-boks-kept-mum-on-injuries-in-all-blacks-tests"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:41:00","slug":"op-bound-sacha-then-boks-kept-mum-on-injuries-in-all-blacks-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/op-bound-sacha-then-boks-kept-mum-on-injuries-in-all-blacks-tests","title":{"rendered":"Op-bound Sacha, then Boks, kept mum on injuries in All Blacks Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>A knee injury to Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has been kept under wraps, first by the player, then by the Springbok management during the Rugby Championship miniseries against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>It has now emerged, as the team prepares to play Argentina in Santiago del Estero on Saturday in a match where if they do not lose they will wrap up the title, that the player played through both Tests with the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bok coach Rassie Erasmus revealed Feinberg-Mngomezulu, who now has to undergo an operation, should be ready to take part in the Springboks&#8217; end-of-year tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe injured his knee before the first Test against the All Blacks and he played in that game,\u201d Erasmus, announcing his line-up on Tuesday, said about the first clash at Ellis Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next week on the Wednesday, I asked him why he was limping and he said he injured his knee last week. I wanted to pull him out of that team because he was limping, on the field even.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remaining mum about the injury did not endear Feinberg-Mngomezulu to the Bok coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s what our players must understand. We have respect for everybody, but we must be honest when it comes to injuries. Nobody who\u2019s got an injury and is 80% ready is better than a Springbok who has no injuries and is 100% ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Sacha is lucky we won those Test matches because he gambled a bit. He is having the operation now. I\u2019m not sure exactly what is wrong with the knee but he will only be ready in four-and-a-half weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Handre\u0301 Pollard will start Saturday&#8217;s Test at flyhalf, while Manie Libbok was named among the substitutes. Libbok may get his second start of the year in Mbombela next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Feinberg-Mngomezulu was left out of the touring squad to Argentina, along with Bongi Mbonambi, Frans Malherbe, Cheslin Kolbe, Damian de Allende, Pieter-Steph Diu Toit and Willie le Roux, who should be available for selection for the return Test in Mbombela on September 28.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side too, utility back Damian Willemse should be available for Bok selection for the first time this year, while light has emerged from the end of the lock injury crisis tunnel. Jean Kleyn is making his return to the field for Munster this weekend, while RG Snyman and Franco Mostert are six weeks away from action. Whether Snyman and Mostert will return to fitness in time for the end-of-year tour remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, regular captain Siya Kolisi will be in the coaches\u2019 box at Estadio Unico Madre Ciudades on Saturday to learn more about the coaches&#8217; communication with the players during a game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSiya was brought here not to play but as standby if someone gets injured \u2014 but also helping to prepare the team off the field for this important game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was always the plan that he wouldn\u2019t play,\u201d Erasmus said about Kolisi, who suffered a broken nose against the All Blacks at Ellis Park. He needs a medical procedure to fix his nose but that will only be done after the Test against Los Pumas in Mbombela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSiya can play in Mbombela next week and then he can have a reset, so he will have it fixed after Mbombela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing we also want to do is get Siya in the coaches&#8217; box. We\u2019ve got Duane [Vermeulen] on the side who relays the messages to Siya and the decisionmakers on the field. But he actually doesn\u2019t know what is happening in that coaches&#8217; box, so we want to give him a feel of how we get to a decision or how we send a message down so he understands the whole process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years ago Duane had a better understanding of how to interpret information he received and we hope to do the same with Siya this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether Kolisi eventually follows Vermeulen to the Boks&#8217; coaching team will be a topic of much future speculation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. A knee injury to Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has been kept under wraps, first by the player, then by the Springbok management during the Rugby Championship miniseries against New Zealand. It has now emerged, as the team prepares to play Argentina in Santiago del Estero on Saturday in a match where if they do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":73879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-73880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Op-bound Sacha, then Boks, kept mum on injuries in All Blacks Tests - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/op-bound-sacha-then-boks-kept-mum-on-injuries-in-all-blacks-tests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Op-bound Sacha, then Boks, kept mum on injuries in All Blacks Tests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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