Sale Sharks Director of Rugby Alex Sanderson: “Tom Curry has been again all the way down to London to have additional intensive X-rays underneath motion with a unique guide and that is one of the best factor for him within the brief time period. I do know it sounds long-term – the season – nevertheless it’s not”
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England flanker Tom Curry has been dominated out of the 2024 Six Nations because of a hip harm
Tom Curry will miss your entire Six Nations and most probably the remainder of the season after Sale revealed he should bear surgical procedure to restore a hip harm.
Curry has been troubled by the difficulty since enjoying a full half in serving to England end third within the current World Cup and a go to to a specialist confirmed {that a} filter out of the joint is the one choice.
The 25-year-old flanker, an computerized decide for England when match, will bear the operation the week after subsequent.
Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson stated: “Tom has been again all the way down to London to have additional intensive X-rays underneath motion with a unique guide and that is one of the best factor for him within the brief time period.”
The setback continues a turbulent interval in Curry’s profession that noticed him miss the Six Nations due to a hamstring harm after which sit out the build-up to the World Cup via ankle ligament harm.
A crimson card for a harmful sort out towards Argentina within the event opener resulted in a two-match ban, earlier than his look within the semi-final towards South Africa was adopted by the fallout to his allegation that he had been racially abused by Bongi Mbonambi. He earned his fiftieth cap within the bronze ultimate.
Curry endured an eventual World Cup, selecting up a crimson card vs Argentina and accusing South Africa’s Bongi Mbonambi of racism
Now the all-action again row is going through a prolonged spell of rehabilitation, forcing England and Sale to search for options to fill the void created of their again rows.
“I do know it sounds long-term – the season – nevertheless it’s not,” Sanderson stated.
“He is nonetheless a younger lad and it is one of the best factor for him within the short-term to make sure he is capable of be extra strong shifting ahead and to coach and progress his recreation the best way he desires to.
“The extent of stiffness hadn’t flagged as much as this diploma till this level in his profession.
Sale Sharks Director of Rugby Alex Sanderson admits Curry is prone to miss the entire season
“There has at all times been hip stiffness there and a component of managing his load as a result of he’ll simply empty the tank and this time he was doing the identical factor however simply not recovering and wasn’t capable of do it repeatedly.
“The crimson flags have been out that perhaps there was one thing deeper right here and apparently there’s.
“I am certain there might be ebbs and flows over the following 4 or 5 months and I hope to be a part of that journey with him as we get him again to the place he must be.
“There was no chink within the invincible armour that’s Tom Curry. It was like, ‘proper, let’s get it carried out. Let’s go’.”