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SYDNEY - Bulldogs star Sonny Bill Williams has been ruled out of the New Zealand side for next month's league test against Australia.
X-rays on his right arm have revealed a spiral fracture of the radius, a result of the bone being twisted.
"It's like if you get a stick out of the garden and twist it and it breaks," Bulldogs doctor Hugh Hazard said of the damage that will rule Williams out for a minimum of eight weeks.
His specialist has yet to determine whether to insert a plate and recovery time is expected to be longer than the eight weeks without surgery.
The second-rower suffered the injury early in the Bulldogs' 25-6 semifinal loss to Parramatta on Saturday.
He returned to the field without painkillers late in the match in a last ditch effort to help the Dogs save their season, but was forced off again soon after.
"The doc said that if he needled it up I wouldn't be able to move my arm at all," Williams told the Nine Network. He didn't really do much because when I was out there I couldn't move it."
Williams denied suggestions he was overly susceptible to injury.
"Injury's a big part of the game but this year was the fittest I've been for a while and I didn't get any injuries.
"It's just bad luck."
The Kiwis host Australia in Wellington on October 14.
Hooker Nathan Fien, the centre of the "grannygate" row a year ago, was yesterday added to the Kiwis train-on squad.
Fien was ruled ineligible during last year's Tri-Nations after already having appeared in two tests for the Kiwis.
It was revealed that his great-grandmother, and not his grandmother as required, was New Zealand-born.
However, Fien, 28, will be eligible to turn out under another criterion - he has lived in Auckland for the past three years.
AAP, NZPA
