Unanswered questions in Wallabies injury curse

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Morgan Turinui says Rugby Australia indispensable find a mode to improve its precocious show programme after a horrific wounded toll that has exposed a deficiency of extent successful the Wallabies.

Michael Hooper, Taniela Tupou, Rob Valetini, Hunter Paisami, Dave Porecki, Andrew Kellaway and Nic White were each ruled retired of Sunday's (2.15am AEDT kick-off) season-ending Test against Wales, joining an already crowded casualty ward.

"There person been 50 players utilized this twelvemonth and I deliberation astir 50 past twelvemonth arsenic well," erstwhile Wallaby Morgan Turinui said connected Rugby Heaven connected Stan Sport.

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"Something successful the mid-40s astir idiosyncratic incidents with players that resulted successful the missing of a game. I deliberation there's an constituent of atrocious luck.

"There's an constituent of it's a collision sport. There's an constituent besides that we're treating concussion, finally, starting to arsenic we should truthful the players person been withdrawn from matches from concussion issues arsenic well. So that volition adhd to that fig people arsenic opposed to historically."

The astir alarming injuries are superior Achilles tendon setbacks to Quade Cooper, Taniela Tupou, Rob Leota and Harry Johnson-Holmes.

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"If you're the Wallaby staff, if you're Rugby Australia, you request to find immoderate wins there, immoderate gains successful reducing that number," Turinui said.

"If it's 45 missed (games) incidents, get down to the 30s. Get down arsenic overmuch arsenic you can.

"There are learnings, determination are opportunities to amended your program. I'm definite that's what they'll do. They've besides had immoderate issues astir unit and that's seen radical coming successful and retired of the program. It hasn't been the aforesaid idiosyncratic starring the precocious show programme close done the years."

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Wallabies fable Tim Horan wasn't funny successful speculating connected wherefore the injuries had occurred but said they had severely exposed Dave Rennie's squad.

Australia has won conscionable 4 of their 13 Tests this twelvemonth and person dropped to eighth successful the satellite rankings.

"The lone occupation I've got is that we each thought that the Wallabies had amended extent and it wasn't shown determination against Italy," Horan said.

"But the injuries are an contented and you're right, they conscionable request to code it and spot however they tin alteration it. The large ones are to Quade Cooper, Taniela Tupou and Samu Kerevi.

"They're the 3 large names that everyone's hoping they're going to beryllium backmost for Rugby World Cup adjacent year."

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