Hurst returns
The former Canterbury and All Black centre, lan Hurst, is playing rugby again —but ‘ ‘very quietly.”
The chunky Hurst has had a few pre-season matches for Oamaru Old Boys, but says it is too early to determine wheth-i er his damaged leg will! carry him through. “1 am just reintroducing my body to the strain of rugby,” he said this week. In a match in 1975, Hurst received a grievous injury to his right leg; a bone in the lower part of the leg was broken and the ankle was dislocated as well. He made a comeback in 1976, but the leg continued to trouble him, and eventually he gave rugby away last year. Now he is using a new method of strapping his leg, and says that the re-
suits so far have been promising. “I have definitely got! the interest — its just aI matter of me holding together,” he said.
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