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Bulls and Springboks fly-half Pollard suffers another injury blow
By Peter Thompson
Luckless Bulls fly-half Handre Pollard has been ruled out for up to 10 weeks after damaging his ankle in training on Thursday.
The South Africa international's chances of playing in the Test series against France in June would appear to be slim following his latest injury setback.
Pollard missed the entire 2016 Super Rugby season due to knee and shoulder injuries, but made his comeback in February.
The 23-year-old playmaker may require surgery after suffering another setback, which is expected to rule him out for eight to 10 weeks.
Pollard, the Springboks' first-choice fly-half at the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England, last year revealed he was told he could lose an arm due to complications with surgery after his shoulder became badly infected.
South Africa face Les Blues in Pretoria on June 10 for the first of three Tests.
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A "glider". A great way to sum up Bruce Robertson. I used to love watching him play for the All Blacks as a kid in the 70's and in to the 80's. Also when he played for Counties against my team Canterbury here at Lancaster Park. It was one of the worse selections of all time when he was not picked in the initial All Black touring team that went to Australia in 1980. He got over there due to an injury to someone else. Like Canterbury great and second-five Warwick Taylor , they both knew how to make players outside of them life a lot easier. Crusader great Ryan Crotty the same.
Go to commentsI'm elated by this news. First of all, he doesn't play like his age. He can still hack it. Second, he'll probably be the back up as he is this season, while serving a leadership role and as a fantastic mentor to Will Porter, or anyone brought in at 9.
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