Rugby Union: Gibbs out for season: Bad news for Wales

SCOTT GIBBS, the Lions and Wales centre, will undergo surgery on his right knee today and will miss the whole of the Five Nations' Championship, writes Robert Cole.

The 22-year-old Gibbs badly twisted his right knee in a tackle at the end of Saturday's game in Cardiff between the Barbarians and the All Blacks and will have an operation on a severed lateral ligament today.

'The good news is that he will make a full recovery,' Bob Norster, the Welsh team manager, said. Norster will name a replacement for Gibbs in the Welsh training squad before Sunday's session at Swansea.