Since picking up a hamstring injury on the first day of serious business on Japanese soil, he has been forced to endure an anxious limbo. For now, though, his continued absence from the coach’s plans are causing a rippling series of knock-on effects. Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt during an Ireland Rugby press conference in the Sheraton Hotel & Towers Kobe, in Kobe Japan. Ironically, his chronic injury woes have ruled that option out, if ever it were a runner in the first-place. Henshaw’s hamstring woe is not the only concern afflicting the coach, as the momentous quarter-final date with either New Zealand or South Africa looms.

Source: Irish Independent October 01, 2019 20:37 UTC