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Johan Goosen Out For Season 6 views
01 May 2012 by The Swede Eaters
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Cheetahs star and points scoring machine Johan Goosen is out of rugby for four months, joining several stars on the sidelines including fellow points scoring stud James O'Connor.
Super Rugby 2012 is a tough competition, but now you can add the name of Johan Goosen to the growing list of stars forced to watch from the sidelines. Goosen (19) is out for four months after dislocating his shoulder scoring a great solo try at a great cost against the Highlanders, but it wasn't even enough to get the Cheetahs home. It is sad that we won't be seeing the talented youngster anymore this season. (It looked like Goosen may have knocked the ball on before picking it up to score his try, so maybe there was justice in the Cheetahs vs Highlanders game).
He joins other www.testrugby.com stud James O'Connor on the sidelines, forcing a reshuffle for managers. O'Connor is out for six weeks with a rib injury.
Both the Rebels and Cheetahs won't realistically make the finals and so the loss of these players is probably not as crucial as it could have been.
Lions fly half Butch James has been banned for four weeks for a shoulder charge, while the Rebels Danny Cipriani has been dumped by the Melbourne Rebels midseason. You wouldn't have been doing very well in the game if you had either of these guys in your team. They are not in the same class as O'Connor and Goosen.
It seems that the lower ranked teams have had their bad run of injuries with the likes of Jerome Kaino and Isaia Toeava missing from the Blues for the season too. It never helps being kicked while you are down!
Speaking of lower ranked teams....brilliant halfback Will Genia looked like he was heading to the Western Force for next season, but apparently he got so much joy out of singing the Reds team song when they beat the Blues in Auckland on Friday night, that he was willing to take a pay cut to stay at the Brisbane based Reds.
http://www.superrugbytips.com/2012/04/johan-goosen-out-for-super-rugby-season.html
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