{"id":1667294,"date":"2022-10-01T01:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T05:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667294"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T05:51:26","slug":"rugby-tupaea-targets-playing-return-in-nine-months-after-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rugby-tupaea-targets-playing-return-in-nine-months-after-knee-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Tupaea targets playing return in nine months after knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frugby-tupaea-targets-playing-return-in-nine-months-after-knee-surgery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667294&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     All Blacks centre Quinn Tupaea is hoping to return to action ahead of next year\u2019s Rugby World Cup as he prepares for knee surgery on a season-ending injury sustained against Australia last month.<\/p>\n<p>Wallabies lock Darcy Swain was banned for six weeks for the controversial clean-out that ruptured the 23-year-old\u2019s knee ligaments during New Zealand\u2019s win over Australia in Melbourne, sidelining Tupaea until the middle of next year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a few days to process it and, yeah, it\u2019s been pretty tough, but I think I\u2019m coming through the other side here,\u201d he told Newstalk ZB radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be in a brace for six weeks or something but be moving the whole time and, yeah, just slowly chipping away at it and hopefully be back playing in nine months. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the goal at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tupaea will miss all of next year\u2019s Super Rugby season and faces a major challenge to reclaim a place in the All Blacks squad ahead of the World Cup, which kicks off in France in October.<\/p>\n<p>The All Blacks had been incensed by Swain\u2019s behaviour, with fullback Beauden Barrett describing the incident as a \u201cfree shot\u201d on a defenceless Tupaea as the Australian clattered into his extended leg.<\/p>\n<p>Swain was suspended for six weeks but will miss only three tests after his inclusion in an Australia A side for a tour of Japan, leaving him free to play some part in the Wallabies\u2019 end-of-season tour of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I\u2019d won a penalty, heard the whistle go and then I just felt a bit of force hit my knee from the side,\u201d Tupaea said of the incident. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done my (medial cruciate ligament) before so I sort of knew what it felt like and that\u2019s what it felt like initially. I just knew straight away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt actually hurt quite a bit and when I got up to test it myself, my knee just sort of collapsed inwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Michael Church in Hong Kong; Editing by William Mallard)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/rugby-tupaea-targets-playing-return\/attachment\/autumn-international-italy-v-new-zealand-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9017R-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9017R-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 All Blacks centre Quinn Tupaea is hoping to return to action ahead of next year\u2019s Rugby World Cup as he prepares for knee surgery on a season-ending injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}