Dane Coles in doubt for Lions tour

Another player that may be suffering from concussion...a great player but looks to be having a bad run with injuries...
..."We genuinely don't know where he got those symptoms from, but those symptoms were not apparent to us until post his return-to-train from his knee injury. So he had no symptoms post that game, if in fact he incurred the injury in the game," Boyd said.

Players regularly receive head trauma without being concussed and headaches after or during exercise are often the first clue. In Coles' case, he was told not to exercise at all for two weeks because of his knee, meaning there was a delay before any head trauma symptoms became obvious.

Coles' injury would come as a further blow to the All Blacks who are beginning to feel the strain of Super Rugby on their selection prospects with many of their leadership group sustaining injuries in recent weeks.

Among the All Blacks to suffer an injury have been captain Kieran Read, flanker Jerome Kaino and fullback Ben Smith.

 - Stuff

If he does not get a chance to play against the Lions that would be very sad. For any Southern H player, they basically only get one shot at playing a test series against the Lions in their whole career. If an injury prevents that from happening, it must be heart breaking. 
Good luck to him and all the other injured AB's. We want two full strength sides slogging it out. Lord knows us Saffas have nothing to look forward to as far as the Boks are concerned, which is why I am am really looking forward to the Lions series. 

 ...sounds like it's not actually concussion but they're following concussion protocols anyway because of his unexplained headaches.... a bit of a medical mystery..
...still some big derbies to be played before the Lions tour as well so would'nt be suprised if we lost more big names between now and then.....but luckily there's plenty of depth of players for Steve Hansen to choose from...most likely the replacement hookers will come from the Landers and Crusties teams...but ABs Nigel Harris and Hika Elliot from the Chiefs are also possibilities given the Chiefs have one of the best front rows in the comp.