"It's likely that Rory will have surgery this time because it's a second break and it looks like the cheekbone is out of position," Larkins said.
"At the moment the decision is whether he has a plate inserted to fix the fracture, which would mean he'd miss more time than he did first time around, probably five to six weeks."
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