IRELAND CENTRE ROBBIE Henshaw is set to pull on his Connacht jersey again this Friday when Treviso visit the Sportsground.
Connacht are just one point adrift of league leaders Scarlets after both of last year’s contenders for sixth place have made the most of their early-season chances.
On Friday, with Scarlets in the RDS and Treviso in the Sportsground, Pat Lam’s men must be confident that they can at least pull level with Wayne Pivac’s Welsh side.
Henshaw will be joined back in contention by scrum-half John Cooney, Prop Ronan Loughney and hooker Shane Delahunt.
Tiernan O’Halloran will also be available to Lam despite complaining of a sore jaw after the weekend win over Edinburgh. One player who didn’t make it through that game was second row Quinn Roux, the 25-year-old will consult with a surgeon to determine the seriousness of a ‘nasal fracture’ suffered late on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Jason Harris-Wright is hoping to cut his absence from league duty just shy of 12 months. The 27-year-old hooker has not played since suffering a serious knee injury against Zebre on 21 November last year, but returned to the field for an hour of Clontarf’s Ulster Bank League win over Terenure on Friday and will feature for the Connacht Eagles this week.
