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The Chiefs coach Colin Cooper does not want his team to focus on what they have to do to earn accommodation rights in the quarterfinals .
The Super Rugby match against the Hurricanes in Hamilton on Friday, and co-captain Sam Cane is ready to take the game as a precaution after his concussion.
The OpenSide flanker was forced to give up late in the first half of the 24-19 He defeated the Brumbies at FMG Stadium Waikato and, though he passed his HIA assessment Coach Colin Cooper was not interested in bringing Cane back to the park in case of further damage.
He must now join fellow All Black Damian McKenzie on the sidelines of a clash that, because of their likely quarter-final match the following weekend, will actually be meaningless – unless the Chiefs could claim a bonus point victory and a winning margin of 23 or more, which would see the match unfold in Hamilton and not in Wellington. – Captain Sam Cane has passed his HIA test on Saturday, but after not being 100 percent, he should be rested … "title =" "src =" https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content /dam/images/1/q/p/e/6/t/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1qptd9.png/1531105744906.jpg "class =" photoborder "/>
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Co-captain Sam Cane passed his HIA test on Saturday, but after not being 100 percent, should be rested this weekend.
"We will not put him in danger, so he's unlikely to play this weekend," Cooper said after training Monday. 19659007] READ MORE:
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"He passed his test [on the night] but as we thought after that, he still is not a hundred [per cent] where he should"
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The First Five-Eighth Damian McKenzie The Hurricanes Game as All Blacks Second Draw
The First Five-Eighth McKenzie will serve his second All Blacks game, with Cooper wanted to make a place in the quarter-finals after the June break before doing so. . Asked that earlier in the season had been a consideration, he noted that the Rotorua Jaguars game was scored (which, ironically, the Chiefs eventually lost anyway.)
"But we we lost three seven in a week. " he said, injuries to Cane, Lachlan Boshier and Mitch Karpik. "You can not account for that, you have to adjust things. For critics who think we should have sat Damian earlier, we would have liked, but we just did not have the time, with players losers, inexperience "
On the rest of the injury this week, lock Brodie Retallick will return from his pectoral problem and hooker Nathan Harris should be well after suffering a stubborn thigh against the Brumbies Sean Wainui is worried, not training on Monday because of his shoulder injury suffered on Saturday, while Cooper felt it unlikely for Friday.
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The vice of utility Sean Wainui, who signed with the chiefs for two years, is missing the Hurricanes' match due to an injury to him. ;shoulder.
Prop Nepo Laulala is still fighting after complications in his recovery from a broken arm against the Blues on March 2, but he will receive a scan next Monday and could figure in the quarterfinals.
In Friday's wind and striker from all regions looking to reach this quarter-final at home, Cooper focuses instead on winning the match, and sending some players with style in which is likely to be the last home game of the team.
"We talked about it with our leadership group [the maths around getting the home advantage] but for the whole group, they just need to hear one thing – and that's it" we're going to do everything we can to to win and "
" I do not like a lot of clutter, I just like to have a real purpose around what we are trying to do
"You've seen what's going on. they [his players] can do against the Highlanders in the first half [when they went to halftime up 42-0 in Suva two rounds back]. "
Meanwhile, the House announced Monday that hooker Liam Polwart, midfielder Alex Nankivell and Wainui had all signed up to At the end of the 2020 season.
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