Carter skips Cape Town
4 Feb 2009
Dan Carter will not attend the Cape Town Tens at Hamiltons this weekend, after picking up a serious Achilles tendon injury.
Carter, who is currently on a sabbatical from New Zealand rugby at French club Perpignan, will be out of action for six months after suffering the injury in the 79th minute of his team’s 13-13 Top 14 draw against Stade Français in Paris.
In a double blow for the 26-year-old All Blacks flyhalf – who just last week had signed up to join the Cape Town Tens as a tournament ambassador – he will also finish his intended six-month club career in France having played just five matches for the Catalan club.
“It was the last play of the game,” said Carter. “I just tried to push off my foot when suddenly it felt like somebody had kicked me in the Achilles… One of my first thoughts was, ‘What about the Cape Town Tens?’, and I sent a text to Ron Rutland from hospital telling him I had hurt myself, but I wasn’t able to say for sure whether I would make the Cape Town Tens or not.
“As it turns out it was actually a partial tear of my Achilles and I will return to Paris on Thursday for surgery. I will spend a few days there after my operation and we’ll see afterwards where I will do the majority of by rehab. It’s a real bugger; as all injuries are, but I’m confident I can make a full recovery and be back playing some good rugby for the All Blacks in a few months’ time.”
Carter has yet to decide whether he will stick around in France, instead of returning to New Zealand to undergo rehabilitation.
20 Comments
4 Feb 2009, 13:35 pm
Dawn will be devastated.
Oh, Dragons.
4 Feb 2009, 13:58 pm
Simon (or is that Simian?)
Way behind the times mate. He f**ked his Achilles last weekend. I suspect that “Hamiltons” was the last thing on his mind! He was probably more thinking of the several millions of Rands he won’t earn from “Les Frogs” now.
4 Feb 2009, 13:59 pm
Dammit I hate dragons. Thwarted. Number 2 yet again.
4 Feb 2009, 14:00 pm
Number 3…
4 Feb 2009, 14:04 pm
I would think one of his first thoughts would be oh shite Perpignan and not Cape Town 10′s. Anyway , major setback for the 10′s , wonder who will replace him ?
4 Feb 2009, 14:09 pm
#2 BillTong: I agree … but that’s what he said in the press release
4 Feb 2009, 14:11 pm
#2 BillTong: Simian…LOL …go Billtong you beast!! I thought they fired Simon…he can probably still login and post stuff…just without getting pay (like that guy on Office Space)….hence the quality of his work.
4 Feb 2009, 14:30 pm
Dan Carter skips Cape Town and Dawn has a wobble.
4 Feb 2009, 15:26 pm
I will have to cancel that gatsby order then.
4 Feb 2009, 15:27 pm
Shame, he’ll be gutted! I was reading rcently that he couldnt wait to get to Cape Town to enjoy some nice summer weather and refered to it as “one of his favourite cities in the world”.
4 Feb 2009, 15:32 pm
#10 Yetirat:
Enjoying the Cape hospitality there, Dan?
4 Feb 2009, 16:21 pm
hmmm, dawn must be soooooooo disappointed!
#11 Sheriff:
hi there lawman! not ignoring your mails. first time i got near a computer this afternoon. will chat later!
4 Feb 2009, 17:07 pm
it’s alright… CT doesn’t like you much anyways!
4 Feb 2009, 17:32 pm
#2 BillTong:
sparticus – http://www.capetownrugby.co.za
Simon
I had a 3 Ton tank dragged up my leg (University, don’t ask) and all I was thinking was, where the hell is my sun-glasses. Ends up I had to get a re construction operation on my leg and knee and will prob start using a cane at the age of 45.
Strange **** goes through your head in an accident. A friend of mine totaled his car when he rolled it over 3 lanes of incoming traffic, and all he was thinking of was, where the hell is my siggies?
If the guy said that was what he was thinking of, thats what he was thinking of.
5 Feb 2009, 00:10 am
#13 SpringbokSarah: The feeling is mutal, believe me, we don’t like CT!!
5 Feb 2009, 00:52 am
Maybe Dan might pitch up to be at one of the world’s largest, wildest full-on two day fancy-dress parties, viz. the Wellington Sevens! What a sharp festive contrast with that dull, dreary snorefest SA annually puts on in that dull little sleepy-hollow village of George.
5 Feb 2009, 01:14 am
#16 TheTackler: Such a bright, positive person aren’t you?! Yep, that’s what people say “there goes good ol’ Tackler, such a cheerful oke, no matter how hard it gets he still manages to stay so positive!”.
5 Feb 2009, 05:15 am
#17 Crouching Tiger Hidden Bokke: Face it, Wellington ROCKS and George absolutely sucks. It’s high time to move the SA Sevens to a buzzy city like Cape Town or, if not, to party-friendly university town where there is some sort of atmosphere better than that of a dull retirement village.
5 Feb 2009, 07:14 am
#18 TheTackler:
Stellenbosch. Facilities, GORGEOUS scenery/girls, thousands of supporters and a big rugby culture…
5 Feb 2009, 07:51 am
#19 Greenpoint-Gunner: There you go.
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