RTS injury

[Guest]

Does anyone have any info on RTS's injury in the dying moments of the RWLC semi?

It looked pretty serious, a mate reckons he could miss next season but who knows....

[GC6]

He was limping around afterwards. Possibly just a minor sprain to his ankle.

[Tommy Smith]

lol miss next season. I highly doubt that.

[fletch]

not sure if it was knee/ankle, but there must have been a loud pop/crack as the English defender immediately called for play to be stopped, if its ankle it is likely to be similar to Cordner's injury, fingers crossed it wasn't an ACL but that would be higher unlikely as he limped around for 5 minutes after the injury.

[Sydney_Roosters_4_Life]

Relax, don't get carried away..

Sydney Roosters @sydneyroosters 3h
We unfortunately don't have an injury update on RTS for anyone, but we've chatted with the young-gun and he's feeling good after a big win

[Darkone]

Relax, don't get carried away..

Sydney Roosters @sydneyroosters 3h
We unfortunately don't have an injury update on RTS for anyone, but we've chatted with the young-gun and he's feeling good after a big win

Hope yer right...

Heard it was a broken leg.

[Rooster_6]

Hope yer right...

Heard it was a broken leg.

No chance, he played on for for the rest of the game despite hurting it in about the 75th minute. Including taking a kick in the 79th and charging 30 metres with no step back into the defensive line. Plenty of courage.

[fletch]

LONDON: He scored arguably the greatest ever World Cup try in one of the competition's most epic contests, he is just out of his teens - and he played on with a suspected broken leg.

Shaun Johnson broke 67,000 hearts by dashing over to the left of the posts with just 20 second left to keep New Zealand's Cup defence alive at Wembley Stadium on Saturday but winger Roger Tuivasa-Sheck was the the true star of an exhilarating 20-18 win over England.

Legendary commentator Ray French called his first-half touchdown, which saw the ball propelled from one touchline to the other, where it was flicked in-field from mid-air, out of bounds - as the best World Cup try since Clive Sullivan's solo effort for Great Britain in 1972

The excitable 20-year-old left Wembley Stadium in a surgical boot and team doctor Simon Mayhew said he may have broken a bone in his leg late in the match.

"I put my leg out straight and someone landed on it - I thought I heard a crack," Sydney Roosters' Tuivasa-Sheck said.
"I just had to find something to fight on and keep going. I just looked around at the boys and that's what keeps you going

The Word Cup final, it's something that comes only once a lifetime so hopefully I get right for it."

The injury to the competition's leading tryscorer wasn't the only Kiwis buzzkill after a contest for which new superlatives will probably have to be concocted, England tendering a top draw performance only to be denied in soul-destroying circumstances.

Captain Simon Mannering told one interviewer it had been "our worst performance of the tournament" and hero Johnson reckoned: "at times it felt like we were just throwing the World Cup away
"I was well off the mark ... that's why it is mixed emotions," said Warrior Johnson, who described the try as 'by far' the biggest moment of his career.

"Defensively I wasn't there and that's what I've built my game on this whole tournament. I've been pretty good defensively and I guess if wasn't for that try at the end, it would be a bitter taste.

"It would be pretty hard to look at myself if we had to go home."

After a dismal showing against France, England were not expected to seriously test a Kiwis outfit that had topped the try- and pointscoring charts in the pool and quarter-final stages.

But after an early disallowed try to Kiwi Issac Luke, powerful England rolled down the lush Wembley turf and Sam Burgess' one-handed pass gave Sean O'Loughlin his 16th minute try.

This was converted and later complemented by a Kevin Sinfield penalty goal, before the RTS Express put the finishing touches on a try for the ages.

Jason Nightingale, Sam Kasiano, Kieran Foran and Issac Luke all handled before Dean Whare scooped the Steeden back to Tuivasa-Sheck when the Penrith centre's entire body was outside the field of play - and he was facing the other way.

Even the England players, standing in their own in-goal watching the video referee decide, must have been tempted to applaud.

Johnson added a penalty goal to bring up an 8-8 scoreline that Kiwis coach Stephen Kearney admitted was flattering.

Tuivasa-Sheck's footwork delivered a 43rd minute touchdown to the Kiwis; during this period, the tourists received five consecutive penalties. But after the run was broken, half Sinfield put cenre Kallum Watkins over to tie the scores; the captain missed a relatively simple conversion attempt.

Then came Sam Burgess's bullocking try from close range in the 68th minute, the touchdown that should have secured England a place in the World Cup final.

The Kiwis looked to have been spooked later, Kevin Locke lobbing a ball over winger Nightingale's head, but after a high tackle penalty and with Sinfield rushing up out of the line, Johnson stepped his way over to the left of the posts and serenely slotted home the winning points.

Kearney joked he was "under the desk" as the 11th hour drama played itself out. He said the areas in which New Zealand were deficient were "not had to fix" and was hopeful of Tuivasa-Sheck and Manu Vatuvei each being available for the Old Trafford showdown with Australia.

Rival Steve MacNamara had the good grace to tell a television audience of millions, within minutes of a crushing defeat, "that game put rugby league on the map."


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/l...#ixzz2lXDwTCF3

[Yak]

If it's a broken leg then it's just his fibula. You can continue running on a fractured fibula cos it doesn't do much weight-bearing. If it is a break then he's definitely out for next week but would most likely get back to start the season.

He's a tough bastard though, he flew back into the line after he did it. That's amazing!!

[Tommy Smith]

Ouch. Killer blow for the Kiwis.

He'll be fine for the start of the season, albeit underdone.

Better now than in August!

[Guest]

Ouch. Killer blow for the Kiwis.

He'll be fine for the start of the season, albeit underdone.

Better now than in August!

Will play this weekend.. No break..