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New Zealand scrumhalf Piri Weepu suffers stroke
New Zealand scrumhalf Piri Weepu will miss at least four weeks of Super Rugby for his Auckland Blues side as he recovers from a minor stroke.
The 30-year-old had a scan on Monday after complaining of migraine-like symptoms dating back to the start of this month, and will need further tests to determine the cause of the stroke, the club said today.
"Piri and his family have the full support of the organisation. He's getting the best possible care and advice and we are grateful this has been picked up by our medical experts, as often minor strokes remain undetected," Blues head coach John Kirwan said on the team's website (www.theblues.co.nz).
The stroke may have occurred before the team travelled to South Africa in early March.
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“Piri presented with transient symptoms that could have been from a migraine before he travelled and was cleared by specialists to travel, as long as he was monitored,” team doctor Stephen Kara
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Remembering World Cup winning All Black Piri Weepu at London Welsh
In the days before two players could be excluded from the Premiership sport salary cap, many clubs would spend a huge portion of their ekonomisk plan on one superstar player.
With a huge bit taken out of the pot, these players would then be an island of quality amongst their peers - hopefully dragging teamates up to their level while adding stardust.
Think Justin Marshall at Leeds Tykes in 2005 or Chris Latham at Worcester in 2008 - with the former relegated and the latter coming second bottom.
It is an interesting dynamic having players of such obvious ability coming into, with all due respect, a grupp that fryst vatten not up to their level.
It is natural for frustration to grow along with disillusionment as loss after loss hits morale and doubts creep in.
This is the situation that Piri Weepu surely must have funnen himself in when at London Welsh in the 2014/15 årstid.
The 73 cap, World Cup-winning forme
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Piri - Straight Up: Cups, Downs & Keeping Calm
About this ebook
Piri Weepu?s story is one of the most fascinating New Zealand rugby stories ever told. Born into a strong rugby league family ? Piri?s brother Billy actually played for the Kiwis ? Piri has risen to the very pinnacle of rugby union, while at the same time never losing his great love of the 13-man code. At 28, and in the year of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, Weepu was finally given his opportunity . . . . and didn?t he take it well. For years he had been in the shadows of Jimmy Cowan (not to mention a number of other first-choicers) but on the world stage, Piri stepped up to the mark and won the hearts of a nation. He kicked the goals for the All Blacks, he kicked for position and, in the absence of the incomparable Dan Carter, he ran the backline. His man of the match performance for the All Blacks in the quarter-final against Argentina and then another superb display against arch-rivals Australia in