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Henshaw to take 'limited part' in training as Sexton picks up hip injury

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Ireland centre Robbie Henshaw is set to take a limited part in Leinster training this week, with the clock ticking on his returning in time for the November Tests.

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Henshaw, who starred for the British & Irish Lions during the summer despite a number of niggling injury early in the tour, hasn’t played for Leinster since returning from the tour.

The centre started all three Tests for the Lions put is continuing to nurse a foot injury. A Leinster injury update says: “Robbie Henshaw: picked up a foot injury and will be unavailable for selection this week but will take a limited part in training this week as the medics continue to monitor his progress.”

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Meanwhile Ireland flyhalf Jonny Sexton has picked up a hip injury. The 36-year-old “will have further assessment on a hip injury today and will be further assessed during the week.”

The veteran hasn’t been ruled out of selection for Leinster’s Round 5 United Rugby Championship clash with Glasgow Warriors on Friday in Scotstoun Stadium.

James Ryan, who featured in Leinster’s hammering of the Scarlets at the RDS over the weekend, is facing return to play protocols after picking up a concussive injury. The secondrow was a surprise omission from the Lion tour, but did captain Ireland during their summer game against the USA.

Henshaw’s loss for the November tests would be a significant blow for Andy Farrell’s team.

The 28-year-old made his international debut against the USA in the summer of 2013 and has gone on to win 52 caps to date for Ireland. He started every game of the 2015 6 Nations Championship and played in the opening two games of the 2018 Grand Slam success before injury curtailed his involvement. He returned to the Irish midfield to start all three of the summer tests against Australia.

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The Athlone native played his part in securing a first victory over the Springbok on South African soil in 2016 and scored the decisive final try in the win over New Zealand at Soldier Field.

He represented Ireland at the 2015 Rugby World Cup playing the pool games against Italy, and France and the quarter-final against Argentina. Robbie toured with the 2017 British and Irish Lions making four appearances.

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JW 1 hour ago
Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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