Gustavsson asks for understanding after hiding Kerr injury
Australia manager Gustavvson hopes people understand why he kept Kerr's injury under wraps.
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00:00 First of all I want to say I hope you you respect and understand the reason
00:05 when I sat here yesterday that I couldn't speak openly about it so I hope
00:09 there's an understanding of that. At that time we didn't knew 100% what it
00:13 was. We were waiting for a result of a scan so I had a meeting so at 9 30 last
00:17 night we had a meeting with the SSSM team and that's where I got the
00:21 exact news what it was. Sam is a massive part of Ireland's game plan as you
00:27 understand and we didn't want to give that away in advance but once we come to
00:32 the stadium we didn't play any type of mind games. We were honest with the
00:36 team sheet, she wasn't in the starting lineup, we went out with the news saying
00:39 she's injured, she can't play but we wanted to wait until the last second
00:43 when we come to the stadium to not give away too much in tournament football.
00:46 So again I hope for ask for some some understanding with that hope that