Unlucky break for Cummins

[GAFFA]

Western Force winger Nick Cummins will seek a surgeon's help after breaking a hand in the Wallabies' one-point win against Argentina.

And the Australian Rugby Union expects to make a loss on Saturday night's Paterson Stadium Test as the Wallabies' poor form and the inclement weather reduced the crowd to only 18,214.

Cummins, who improved from his performance against South Africa the previous Saturday, had scans yesterday. It is understood he has a small break and could play with the injury.

Cummins has two weeks to recover before the Wallabies meet South Africa in Cape Town, which will be followed by Argentina in Rosaria.

Cummins ran hard in Saturday's 14-13 win and while he was abruptly chopped down by Argentinian No.8 Juan Manuel Leguizamon in one charge, he returned the favour with a crunching tackle that forced a key second-half turnover.

Coach Ewen McKenzie was happy with Cummins' game.

"It was more like what we expect from him, good chase, good enthusiasm, puts his body on the line. That's what we want, that's what we expected," McKenzie said.

"It was far more typical of what we expect of him. Last week he was probably a bit too excited and got a bit ahead of himself early."

The ARU budgeted for a 25,000 crowd and pre-sold 20,000 tickets, but the crowd was the smallest for a Wallabies Test since 15,438 fans turned out for a clash with Fiji in Canberra three years ago.

The ARU and State Government had discussed a move to the smaller and rugby-friendly nib Stadium because of a possible AFL finals clash, but that was ruled out because resurfacing at the newly developed ground had not finished.

The next Test in 12 months against South Africa will be played at Patersons Stadium because the Springboks attract a much bigger crowd.

Last year almost 34,500 fans attended a game.

The ARU and State Government have had preliminary talks on future Tests matches in Perth. An Eventscorp spokesman said they were interested in a "long-term" deal.

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[Hohepa]

Was this the hand he had resting on James' knee?

[Tonkar]

Maybe James Slapped his hand lol
or did QC get jealous and squeeze it to hard after the bromance pick

[PerthGirl]

That's bad luck for Nick. It's a shame events conspired against having the game at NIB. I don't know what will happen in the future for these international games as I can't see a new stadium being built anytime soon with the Barnett government cutbacks. I hope we don't get in the same position as the WACA and lose the Rugby tests

[Marty_Mcfly]

bad luck Nick. hope you get well soon.

not sure of the chances of a lucrative Wallaby top-up now. hope the silver lining out of this is that he re-commits to the Force in the next week or two.

[GIGS20]

I think he's shown himself to be one of the top outside backs in the country at the moment, the only thing against him is the hype for east coast pretty boys.

He makes up for that in sheer HoneyBadgerism

[beige]

That's bad luck for Nick. It's a shame events conspired against having the game at NIB. I don't know what will happen in the future for these international games as I can't see a new stadium being built anytime soon with the Barnett government cutbacks. I hope we don't get in the same position as the WACA and lose the Rugby tests

Will be interesting - now that Sydney has the Bledisloe tied up we will be bidding with Brisbane and Melbourne for Boks tests which seem to be the only ones that draw here...

[sittingbison]

Out for six weeks, not selected to tour Seth Efrikor or Argie.
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[GIGS20]

Well I guess he can talk contracting now that his mid isn't occupied by international rugby.

I thought O'Connor was saying we could expect an announcement within days?

It's really time for the two of them to stitch something up!

[palitu]

he does the hard work, he just needs a little bit of polish and bit better decision making to cement a spot in the line up... case in point: trying to run around someone on the try line and giving away a penalty when he got caught...

[Alison]

Well I guess he can talk contracting now that his mid isn't occupied by international rugby.

I thought O'Connor was saying we could expect an announcement within days?

It's really time for the two of them to stitch something up!

My (cynical as ever) take is that RugbyWA want to announce both signings together to take some of the heat out of the decision to give JOC another go.

So, they're all waiting for the ARU to give the honey badger a top up he can afford to pay the rent with and then it's chocks away!

[GIGS20]

You might be onto something Al, but it's starting to feel a little 'KPI' to me!

[jono]

You might be onto something Al, but it's starting to feel a little 'KPI' to me!

if by that you mean rugby wa imposing KPI's to JOC sure.

[shasta]

You might be onto something Al, but it's starting to feel a little 'KPI' to me!

Yep. On to something all right. But I reckon it's Foley and RugbyWA setting the KPI's this time. Take it or leave it JOC.

Beat me to it jono.

[jono]

Yep. On to something all right. But I reckon it's Foley and RugbyWA setting the KPI's this time. Take it or leave it JOC.

Beat me to it jono.

You'd have to assume that this is the case almost too.
It would give them means to terminate his contract if he played up
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