Player paralysed
PA Wellington A Poneke club rugby player was reported in fairly satisfactory condition in hospital last evening after being paralysed in a club match in Wellington on Saturday. Danny Lau, aged 27, had lost the movement in his arms and legs but still had some feeling in his legs, his team coach, Philip Jones, said yesterday. Lau was injured early in a junior second grade match against Rimutaka. Mr Jones said that from a video film of the match taken by a Poneke sup-
porter it appeared Lau was hurt in an off-the-ball incident. “The video shows it quite clearly,” he said. There was no similarity between Lau’s injury and two others suffered by rugby players already this season, whose spines were injured when scrums collapsed, Mr Jones said. “This was totally different Danny is a second-five-eighths and when he was hurt it was in an off-the-ball incident.” Dunedin victim, page 8
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