Iain Henderson looks set to start his first Test since last year’s Championship after Tadhg Beirne ruled out
Regarding Sexton, Easterby said: “Johnny is like other players who have little niggles, he’s just trying to put himself in a position to be ready to go on Monday.”The Italian game may come too soon for Ireland’s other injured players, Robbie Henshaw , Cian Healy , Jamison Gibson-Park and Tadhg Furlong , although most, and possibly all of them, look like coming back into the equation for the round four game away to Scotland a fortnight later. All are continuing their rehab in the HPC.
Furlong hasn’t played since an appearance as a replacement for Leinster against Ulster on December 3rd due to a troublesome groin issue. “It’s the sort of injury, like a lot of soft-tissue injuries, that you want to make sure you don’t get wrong. You want to make sure you get it right and they feel like they’ve got enough in the bank in terms of exposure to the high intensity of the game. How can we do that? We can do that as much as we can in terms of training but at some point, you have to expose yourself to a game and hopefully that will be over the next few weeks.
Confirming that the player was undergoing surgery today, Easterby said: “Tadhg has been phenomenal, hasn’t he, over the last couple of seasons. But like we’ve already had to do over the course of this Championship – we lost players before the game against Wales – we’ve had to adapt. That’s testament to the squad and the players within, even those guys who might not expect to be involved. They come in and the standard of performance doesn’t drop.
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