Taking big gambles

Weighing up a harmful dilemma, PLUS: money talks inthe Week That Was.

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Shane Christie, the former Highlanders, Tasman and New Zealand Maori flanker, offered up a quote last week that I haven’t been able to shake.

“I can handle a diagnosis of CTE,” he said. “I can manage that, but first it needs to be acknowledged as a possibility by specialists.”

I believe him when he says that, but his is not a consensus view. F…