{"id":4904,"date":"2023-05-26T05:16:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2023-05-26T05:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:16:23","slug":"joe-moody-out-for-eight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"Joe Moody out for eight weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Blacks prop Joe Moody won&#8217;t play for the Crusaders again this season.<\/p>\n<p>Moody&#8217;s had ankle surgery after being injured in the side&#8217;s win over the Blues a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be out for eight weeks which means he will still be available for the All Blacks World Cup campaign in France in September.<\/p>\n<p>Moody&#8217;s the fourth prop the Crusaders have lost during their title defence.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Rugby Pacific side has already lost Fletcher Newell, George Bower and Finlay Brewis to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders hope to add another prop to their roster in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>34 year old Moody missed much of last season with an ACL injury.<\/p>\n<p>He played at both the 2015 and 2019 World Cups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--xHYl-ZUe--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1678518779\/4LCAULM_230311HurricanesBlues_20_JPG\" alt=\"Blues\u2019 Beauden Barrett during the Super Rugby Pacific - Hurricanes v Blues at Sky Stadium in Wellington on the 11th March 2023. \u00a9 Copyright image by Marty Melville \/ www.photosport.nz\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Beauden Barrett.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Marty Melville<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Blues coach Leon Macdonald has confirmed first-five Beauden Barrett will miss Saturday&#8217;s game against the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett has a heel injury picked up in the last round against the Reds in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s on his All Blacks rest this week which coincides with his stitches in his foot, it&#8217;s hard to know for sure but we&#8217;re pretty confident he&#8217;s going to be okay [for next week].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald says Barrett needed to take his mandatory All Blacks rest this round or next but his injury forced their hand.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth placed Blues meet the fifth placed Hurricanes at Eden Park in a battle for fourth spot or higher on the Super Rugby Pacific table with a home playoff game on the line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Blacks prop Joe Moody won&#8217;t play for the Crusaders again this season. Moody&#8217;s had ankle surgery after being injured in the side&#8217;s win over the Blues a fortnight ago. He&#8217;ll be out for eight weeks which means he will still be available for the All Blacks World Cup campaign in France in September. Moody&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}