Nick Schonert (from his twitter account)
Saracens continued their dominant start to their Aviva Premiership campaign in the 1st match of the day in the Twickenham double header on Saturday (28 November).
They put in a fine performance, scoring 6 tries against Worcester Warriors in the game which was long serving No 8 Ernst Joubert’s final 1 for the club. Joubert got to lead Saracens out onto the field in his 161st game for the club.
Veteran Charlie Hodgson converted 1 of Chris Ashton’s tries to reach a wonderful milestone of 2 500 Premiership points. The try was created by the fancy footwork of South African hooker Schalk Brits who also scored a try of his own.
However, another South African, Worcester Warrior’s prop Nick Schonert will not have fond memories of the Twickenham outing as he was probably left scarred for life with a terrible gash to his face. It is not clear how this happened but it looks like he was on the receiving end of nasty rucking and on Saturday night Schonert tweeted a photo of the gaping wound and alluded to it being caused by 1 of the Saracens player’s boots.
Nick Schonert appeared to be in a more forgiving frame of mind on Sunday morning and tweeted a photo (right) of his face all stitched up (40 stitches) with the following words: “All cleaned up!! Was just unlucky but I know it wasn’t intentional. Was such a privilege to play at Twickenham” and ended it with a smiley face.
Nick Schonert with stitched wound (from his twitter account)
It looks like a terrible injury and we wish Schonert all the best with the recovery process. We are not aware at this stage that any Saracens player has been cited for this so maybe it really just was a really nasty accident.
Saracens retain their top position on the log after 5 Rounds of the Premiership, 3 points away from their nearest rivals, the Exeter Chiefs. In the 2nd match of the day at Twickenham, Wasps with South African Ashley Johnson at hooker, secured a bonus point victory over London Irish, scoring 4 tries in the process. Wasps are 5th on the Log with 15 points, 7 points behind leaders.
Ouch!!!
Looks like Nick have been swimming off the Australian coast.
1 @ Lion4ever:
Hi Lion4ever you can say that again or as some of our friends here would say EINA!
2 @ kwas:
Hi Kwas yip it looks like a horrible wound. Wouldn’t want to go swimming in many parts in Aus with all those crocs around. Did manage to get a swim there but not as much as I had thought would as didn’t realize before setting out what a wild place it is, if the crocs don’t get you the stingers (or whatever they call the nasty jellyfish things) will. Gather further out the sharks are waiting as well?
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