Pat McCabe injures neck again

McCabe needs scans after suffering the injury on Saturday, coming off in the second half at Eden Park having felt similar symptoms to when he first fractured his neck.

The 26-year-old broke his neck at the end of 2012 and again last year, and Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie fears he may have suffered the same injury.

"It was fairly innocuous, he just got a knock and felt it on the top of his head," McKenzie was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald.

"When you have these injuries you get a feeling for the symptoms and he felt there were similarities so he came straight off.

"He had a scan last night, there's no risk or anything, the brace is purely precautionary, but it shows on the scan that there might be a recurrence of the same injury.

"He'll see the surgeon this week and we'll get a diagnosis. That's a pretty disappointing outcome."