Sivivatu pasará por el quirófano

Mala suerte para este gran jugador.

Rugby: Surgeon has final word on Sivivatu

All Black winger ruled out for the rest of season

Draw a line through Sitiveni Sivivatu's season.

The mercurial winger was scratched from Chiefs and All Blacks duty after finally giving in to surgery on a recurring dislocated shoulder.

A consultation with a surgeon yesterday confirmed the worst and he will go under the knife in three weeks, with six months rehabilitation to follow. Sivivatu, 28, underwent the same procedure on his right shoulder in 2004.

"While it is disappointing, I'm pretty relaxed about the whole situation," Sivivatu said last night.
"It is just one of those things that happen and I need to just concentrate on recovering well after the surgery."

As for Ian Foster, it's another day as the injury curse continues to strike.

"If any team's in a good position to deal with these sort of things, we are," Foster said.

"It seems to have happened for a while. We're pretty excited by the challenge with the group we've got.

Clearly it's a great opportunity for a number of other players and that's the way we're approaching it."

There had been hope for several weeks that Sivivatu's return to full fitness was imminent, but it was not to be.

"Last year and this year between us and the All Blacks he's been in the rehab phase of it, but the fact that the shoulder has continued to [pop out] has made the decision pretty clear and obvious."

With the World Cup a year away, it seems a good time to cut your immediate losses and think big picture.

Sivivatu's wing spot will be occupied by Jason Hona for tomorrow's clash with the Hurricanes.
Hona, 23, has played one match, coming off the bench in the Chiefs' first-round win over the Sharks, but this will be his first Super 14 start.

His is just one of a raft of changes, some forced by injury, some tactical.

Lauaki has been given time off to recuperate after driving his car through a fence and into a paddock in the early hours of last Saturday morning.

It is expected, if the bruising on his arm has subsided, that he will be available for the home game against the Waratahs next week.

Lomu ha muerto y ha resucitado

"He muerto y he resucitado, con mis cenizas un árbol he plantado, su fruto ha dado,y desde hoy algo ha cambiado", cantaban Los Secretos. Parece que es lo mismo que le ha ocurrido a Lomu esta mañana, que esto de internet lo carga el diablo. No es la primera vez que le ocurre, ya le pasó algo similar el año 2004.

Rumours of Lomu's death miss the mark

Rugby legend Jonah Lomu is alive and well, despite rumours of his death circulating around the web today.

Club officials at Marseille-Vitrolles, the French club where the former test star currently plays, confirmed to the Herald that their star winger was anything but dead.

One rumour, spread around the web via users of the Twitter website, claimed the rugby great passed away after suffering a heart attack in his car.

Another rumour concerned an unidentified old man who allegedly told visitors to Lake Rotorua of Lomu's death.

One Twitter user lamented what they thought was the loss of their rugby hero.
"All my childhood idols are dying. Steve Irwin, Edmund Hillary, Jonah Lomu, that guy from Jaws," wrote a user called Amemait.

The hoax is not the first of its kind. In April 2004 the veteran of 63 appearances for the All Blacks was forced to publish a message on his official website to dispel rumours that he had died while waiting for a kidney transplant.

He would eventually receive a new kidney, courtesy of radio host Grant Kereama, later that year.