Ryan Crotty hoping to still have a part in the Rugby Championship

Call him superstitious but for the past two years Ryan Crotty regarded his beard as a good luck charm.

After all he'd made the All Blacks in that time.

"Since I've had it I've had a really good run of not being injured and played some good footy.

"But in his first International start last month that notion was shattered.

"I guess that was a load of bollocks when I broke my cheekbone.

"It's that broken cheekbone along with Ma'a Nonu's broken arm that again has Sonny Bill Williams a very wanted man by the All Blacks with Crotty unable to make Saturday's trip to Argentina.

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