{"id":546658,"date":"2025-11-03T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546658\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:30:21","slug":"all-blacks-will-be-without-key-duo-for-scotland-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546658\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks will be without key duo for Scotland clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Zealand<\/a> will be without two key players for the second leg of their possible \u2018Grand Slam\u2019 tour of the home nations with both captain Scott Barrett<\/a> and brother Jordie Barrett<\/a> ruled out of Saturday\u2019s Test against Scotland<\/a> at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n

Lock Barrett suffered a laceration on his leg in the third minute of their 26-13 win over Ireland<\/a> in Chicago, which forced the All Blacks<\/a> skipper off at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n

Head coach Scott Robertson<\/a> had previously described the cut as \u201ca decent one, a little sprig above his knee\u201d and confirmed it will not heal in time for Barrett to face the Scots.<\/p>\n

It leaves New Zealand\u2019s second-row resources further stretched after losing Tupou Vaa\u2019i and Patrick Tuipulotu<\/a> to injury before the tour.<\/p>\n

Josh Lord, who impressed after replacing Barrett in Chicago, is likely to deputise from the start in Edinburgh, alongside Fabian Holland<\/a>, who was named player of the match against Ireland.<\/p>\n

Blues<\/a> lock Sam Darry<\/a>, the only other lock in the All Blacks squad, is likely to join the replacements, but Robertson has also summoned another Blues second-row, Josh Beehre<\/a>, from the All Blacks XV<\/a> group preparing to face England<\/a> A in Bath, to provide training cover this week.<\/p>\n

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Scotland <\/p>\n

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New Zealand <\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, centre Jordie Barrett was sent for a scan on Monday after suffering blows to his \u201chigh ankle\u201d area \u201cand a bit of a knee\u201d, according to Robertson.<\/p>\n

\u201cJordie got a scan today, so we\u2019ll find out a little bit more this afternoon,\u201d he said at the squad\u2019s new base in Edinburgh. \u201cHe got hip-dropped and landed on, and it got a bit awkward there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Barrett\u2019s absence, Leicester<\/a> Fainga\u2019anuku \u2013 who replaced Barrett after 15 minutes in Chicago \u2013 could start in midfield alongside Quinn Tupaea<\/a>, with Billy Proctor<\/a> and Anton Lienert-Brown<\/a> the other centre options Robertson could call upon.<\/p>\n

The head coach was circumspect when asked if the Barrett brothers were likely to miss more than just the Scotland fixture.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs good as the cut\u2019s healing, well, he [Scott Barrett] won\u2019t be available for this weekend. Once we get the scan [for Jordie], we\u2019ll see\u2026both of them won\u2019t be available for this weekend,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

New Zealand have never lost to Scotland in 32 previous meetings since 1905, with the Scots managing just two draws in that sequence.<\/p>\n

Their most recent meeting, in 2022, saw the All Blacks recover from 23-14 down in the final quarter at Murrayfield to prevail 31-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand will be without two key players for the second leg of their possible \u2018Grand Slam\u2019 tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-546658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115486958926799342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}