Toulouse's Kakovin out for three weeks

TOULOUSE, France (AFP) –

Toulouse prop Vasil Kakovin (right) vies with Agen’s players during the French Top 14 rugby union match at the Ernest Wallon Stadium in Toulouse on September 8, 2012. Kakovin will be sidelined for three weeks after cracking a rib in the 9-5 defeat to Leicester

Toulouse’s Georgian prop Vasil Kakovin will be sidelined for three weeks after cracking a rib in the 9-5 defeat to Leicester, he said on Monday.

Kakovin came on for South African Guerthro Steenkamp in the closing stages of the game which sealed the four-time European Cup winners’ exit from Pool 2, but lasted just seven minutes on the snowy surface at Welford Road after a crunching encounter with Italian Martin Castrogiovanni.

Two clubmates – fellow Georgian Jaba Bregvadze and Jean-Baptiste Poux meanwhile were in the gym as they look to shrug off fitness concerns ahead of Friday’s Top 14 meeting with Biarritz.