THE growing list of New Zealand injuries is starting to worry Steve Hansen. The All Black coach usually does a passable impression of a Gallic shrug when injuries loom and points to the depth of the understudies in the Kiwi talent pool.
Nevertheless, the recent injuries to his captain, Kieran Read, hooker Dane Coles, blindsides Liam Squire and Jerome Kaino, full-back/wings Ben Smith and Israel Dagg, bench fly-half Lima Sopoaga, and pocket-rocket Nehe Milner-Skudder mean the former Christchurch copper is feeling edgy. Any more bad tidings and Hansen’s shrug could even mutate into the n...