Ollie Norris

Proctor shoulder,

Clark shoulder, another one who's been under the knife, and Ollie Norris knee.

And unavailable for personal reasons, Simon Parker.

And again, I just hope that that is nothing too serious.

Before we get to the squad, we'll just mention the players who were unavailable due to injury.

Samsoni Tokiaho, Shannon Frizzell, Tyrell Lomax, Leroy Carter, Ruben Love, Adi Savia, Luke Jacobson, Caleb Clark, and Ollie Norris, and Simon Parker due to personal reasons.

So...

If you look outside of that, I guess the hookers, certainly, they sort of take care of themselves.

An awful lot of players out with injury.

Shannon Brazell, Samisoni Takiaha, Terrell Lomax, Adi Savia, Luke Jacobson, Caleb Clark, Leroy Carter, Ruben Love, Ollie Norris, Still concerns around Richie Mowanga.

Meaning there are opportunities.

Will they look at the NPC? And I want to talk about that a little bit later as well.

These names today are not available.

Ardie, Mo'unga, Jacobson, Love, Patrick, Proctor, Caleb, Ollie Norris, Tamaiti, Lester, Omou, Segna, Blackadder, Carter, Finiungaanufu.

15 names, ladies and gentlemen.

Why am I making this point? I'm making this point because if you change the 2026 we live in now to 2027, we would be playing World Cup rugby fixtures right now.

Caleb Clark.

And Ollie Norris.

All out.

But Richard Wonga comes in.

Obviously the injury list, when you look at that, that explains a lot of the selections at the moment.

Ardy, Luke Jacobson, Anton Leonard-Brown, Billy Proctor, Caleb Clarke, Ollie Norris all out.

We knew about that.

But then added to that list was a man we debated a lot around whether it would be in the squad, Patrick Tui-Polotu.

I think that's pretty much your top draw.

I know they keep mentioning Oli Norris, but I think Bauer's probably put himself right in the mix with some of those performances in South Africa.

That's a really good, strong propping unit there.

Loxx.