AUCKLAND Aug 24 (Reuters) – Australia winger Pat McCabe competence face another extensive spell on a sidelines after appearing to humour his third critical neck damage in a Wallabies’ 51-20 detriment to a All Blacks in their Rugby Championship strife on Saturday.
McCabe, who has damaged his neck twice, was transposed in a second half of a detriment during Eden Park and was wearing a neck prop during Auckland airfield as a group prepared to transport home on Sunday.
Wallabies manager Ewen McKenzie told Australian reporters during a airfield that initial scans on McCabe’s neck had shown worrying signs for a Brumbies behind who done a quip to a competition this year after nutritious dual neck fractures.
“It was sincerely innocuous, he only got a hit and felt it on a tip of his head,” McKenzie told a Sydney Morning Herald.
“When we have these injuries we get a feeling for a symptoms and he felt there were similarities so he came true off.
“He had a indicate final night, there’s no risk or anything, a prop is quite precautionary, though it shows on a indicate that there competence be a regularity of a same injury.
“He’ll see a surgeon this week and we’ll get a diagnosis. That’s a flattering unsatisfactory outcome.”
McCabe is roughly certain to skip Australia’s subsequent clash, opposite South Africa in Perth on Sept. 6 and is in grave doubt for a rest of a Rugby Championship.
Wallabies harlot Nathan Charles is also in risk of being ruled out for a rest of a southern hemisphere’s Rugby Championship after he suffered what McKenzie suspicion could be a pectoral damage in a Eden Park match.
Charles is a latest in a line of harmed Wallabies hookers to be ruled out, with captain Stephen Moore harmed in a initial notation of his initial exam as captain opposite France in Jun with a season-ending knee injury.
Tatafu Polota-Nau is also battling with a knee injury, while Tolu Latu pennyless his arm in a bar compare after being called into a Wallabies squad.
James Hanson, who transposed Charles on Saturday, is in line to make his initial exam start opposite South Africa while Saia Fainga’a is set for a remember on a bench.
(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Ian Ransom)
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Rugby-Fears for another serious neck injury for Wallaby McCabe
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