Top All Black centre in doubt
PA Auckland i Bruce Robertson, the topi All Black, centre, should' know today whether the knee injury he suffered in the Auckland vs Counties Ranfurly Shield match on Saturday will allow him to leave on October 17 for the AU Black tour of Scotland, England and Italy. Robertson injured his right knee in the eleventh minute of the match, hobbled from the field, • ’atched the rest of the game from the J grandstand and then, like his! team mates, was tearfully! disconsolate in the dressing] room after .Auckland’s 11-91 win. Soon after, Robertson was I taken to Middlemore Hospi-'
! tai for examination of possible damage to the cartilage [of the knee. Mr Malcolm Hood, the Counties team phsyiotherapist and a member of the New Zealand Rugby Union’s medical advisory committee, w'as guarded in his opinion on Robertson’s injury immediately after the match — “it’s so difficult to assess the likely damage so quickly.” Yesterday Mr Hood was slightly, if still cautiously, optimistic. | “The chances of recovery I seemed a little more hopeful! I when Bruce was examined [this morning than it was on Saturday night, but the injury to the cartilage will lhave to be reassessed tomor'row morning,” he said. i
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