{"id":11887,"date":"2012-06-27T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T09:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-former-england-flanker-lipman-quits-rebels-over-health-fears\/"},"modified":"2012-06-27T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T09:59:38","slug":"rugby-former-england-flanker-lipman-quits-rebels-over-health-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-former-england-flanker-lipman-quits-rebels-over-health-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Former England flanker Lipman quits Rebels over health fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MELBOURNE, June 27<\/span> (Reuters) – Former England back-rower
\nMichael Lipman has quit the Melbourne Rebels after suffering
\nsevere headaches and “haziness” following a concussion during
\nthe Super Rugby season.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Lipman had informed his team mates this week, Melbourne’s
\nThe Age newspaper reported, but the decision had been brewing
\nfor some time, a Melbourne Rebels spokesman said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“He won’t be playing any of the remaining games in the
\nseason. It’s an unfortunate end to a great career,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Born in London and raised in Sydney, Lipman was a member of
\nAustralia’s under-21 squad but returned to England where he
\nplayed more than 100 matches for English Premiership club Bath
\nand 10 tests for England following his debut against New Zealand
\nin 2004.<\/p>\n

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He returned to Australia in 2010 to play in the domestic
\nShute Shield competition before being recruited by the Rebels in
\ntheir foundation year last year.<\/p>\n

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“The bottom line is that throughout my career I’ve had so
\nmany bangs to the head and I’ve had so much concussion … the
\nlast couple have been the icing on the cake,” Lipman told The
\nAge.<\/p>\n

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“I’ve just had too many. Enough’s enough and when you’re
\nbody’s talking to you like it is now, you’ve got to listen to it
\nand be sensible because the hardest thing in anything really is
\nto admit that your time is up and to come to terms with it.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“(The headache) is always there and you can feel the
\npressure in your head and when you start running and training it
\nmakes it a lot worse.<\/p>\n

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“You’re just very confused really, and you’re hazy and
\nyou’re very clouded and not many things make sense.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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MELBOURNE, June 27 (Reuters) – Former England back-rower Michael Lipman has quit the Melbourne Rebels after suffering severe headaches and “haziness” following a concussion during the Super Rugby season. Lipman had informed his team mates this week, Melbourne’s The Age newspaper reported, but the decision had been brewing for some time, a Melbourne Rebels spokesman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}