Henry Slade to miss England training camp in Portugal

England Rugby have revealed their latest potential Six Nations casualty, with Exeter Chiefs centre Henry Slade omitted from the Portugal training camp this week.

Slade sustained a shoulder injury over the weekend which has cast doubt on whether not he will be available for England selection next week.

In a brief statement this afternoon, England Rugby said: “Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs) has not travelled to Portugal for England’s training camp.

“Slade will remain with Chiefs for further assessment of a shoulder injury he sustained on the weekend.”

UPDATE | @Sladey_10 has not travelled to Portugal for England’s training camp and will remain with @ExeterChiefs for further assessment on a shoulder injury. pic.twitter.com/QaQkqxe0EA

— England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) January 22, 2018

It was a bad weekend for Exeter Chiefs, who crashed out of the Champions Cup, losing on the road to pool rivals Glasgow Warriors.

“I am disappointed, not just because we lost or because this European campaign has slipped away from us, but we weren’t as good as we needed to be,” said Baxter told the Chiefs website. “Playing in the Champions Cup, playing away to good sides, you know you have to be good and the truth is there were too many times today where we weren’t good enough.

“We conceded that early try and that was kind of indicative of where we were today. It was a pretty soft score, we didn’t talk, we didn’t number up, we kind of looked all over the place in those early minutes. However, we recovered well, we started to get into the game and by half-time I thought we were well placed.

“At 7-7, there have been plenty of games, even in this past month, where we have been level at half time, but then come through and won the game so I wasn’t too worried about that as we had laid some good foundations. Our scrum was looking good and on the whole our attacking shape looked pretty good, and I would normally have backed us to push on from there.”