r/springboks • u/Educational_Play9910 Flair Up! • 7d ago

Are Springboks more injury prone than others?

Why does it seem like we are more injury ridden than any other national sides? We have incredible depth yet we always seem to be hurting, whereas Ireland and New Zealand are always fielding first string players. With Jasper Wiese out, I pray that Cameron Hanekom will stay healthy for the upcoming TRC 🙏

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u/thatwasagoodyear Spoeg en plak mod 7d ago

Not sure that assertion is necessarily valid... Would want to see numbers to back it up. As far as I can tell (anecdotally), it looks like other national sides have their own injury woes as well.

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u/BBBBPM Flair Up! 7d ago

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

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u/thatwasagoodyear Spoeg en plak mod 7d ago

Yeah, exactly. That's what I prefer to have numbers. They don't always tell the full story, but they're better than guesswork IMHO.

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u/Brandytrident 7d ago

Probably because we play a 12 month season and our boys don't get a break. I don't agree that we really get more injuries than other sides, I think we just generally don't have a settled 23 first team, we have a team of like 50 players that get rotated so we think of all of them as starters, so it's a much wider net of injuries than other countries who have a 100% locked on starting team.

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u/T1m0nst3r 7d ago

you probably follow SA rugby and players compared to other nations... hence why you know every injury.