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Bath and England wing Semesa Rokoduguni.

Yet another Six Nations concern for England as Bath wing goes under the knife

Members of Eddie Jones’ squad seem to be dropping like flies at the moment.

SEMESA ROKODUGUNI COULD miss England’s 2018 Six Nations campaign after Bath confirmed the wing is set to undergo shoulder surgery.

Rokoduguni, a try-scoring replacement in two November internationals for Eddie Jones’ side, was hurt in his club’s Premiership defeat to Exeter Chiefs last weekend.

Ahead of Bath’s European Champions Cup clash with Toulon, director of rugby Todd Blackadder said: ”One player who is not available is Roko, who will be going in for surgery on a shoulder injury sustained against Exeter.

“It’s obviously a big loss, but we have the likes of Matt Banahan and Aled Brew among others, who can really cause the Toulon defence problems on Saturday.”

It remains to be seen how long Rokoduguni will be sidelined for, with England’s Six Nations campaign beginning on 4 February.

Leicester Tigers prop Ellis Genge was ruled out for “a couple of months” due to a shoulder injury earlier this week, while influential Saracens forward Maro Itoje is also a doubt for the Six Nations after fracturing his jaw.

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    May 15th 2018, 3:07 PM

    Awful awful news big villa brought my little brother to his 1st villa many years ago bumped into jay lylod in the car was a gent signed autograph a photo and a hug for my brother made the trip RIP lets get to Wembley tonight for him UTV

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    May 15th 2018, 2:58 PM

    Horrible tragedy. Terrible way to go. RIP

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    May 15th 2018, 3:27 PM

    R.I.P hopefully villa can do him proud tonight

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    May 15th 2018, 4:25 PM

    @Dlow Brown: yea because that’s what his family are most concerned about.

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    May 15th 2018, 4:55 PM

    @Seriously stunned: did I mention his family? Did I say what they should be concerned about? Was trying to say something nice….. clean the sand out of ur panties and take ur problems elsewhere.

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    May 15th 2018, 4:56 PM

    @Seriously stunned: they’d probably prefer it more than inane comments like yours

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    May 16th 2018, 2:22 AM

    @Seriously stunned: dikhead

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    May 16th 2018, 2:39 PM

    @Seriously stunned: cop on

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    May 15th 2018, 3:04 PM

    Poor guy.A tragic story.

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    May 15th 2018, 5:49 PM

    RIP J Loyd Samuel, very sad news.
    As a Blues supporter I don’t like Villa one bit, but when tragedy like this strikes we are all United and stand together.
    KRO

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    May 15th 2018, 4:21 PM

    He was a mainstay of many a FPL team for season after season. RIP. Very Sad. God Bless.

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    May 16th 2018, 12:15 AM

    Loved this guy at the Villa
    RIP ace lol

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