CONNACHT HAVE CONFIRMED that Hugh Gavin has undergone ankle surgery and will be ruled out of action until mid-February.
The 20-year-old centre, who made his senior competitive debut against Leinster on 19 October, sustained the injury during Connacht’s victory over the Dragons the following week.
The western province expect Gavin to miss up to 12 weeks of action as he recovers from his recent operation.
Hooker Dave Heffernan will be available for Saturday’s URC meeting with the Bulls at Dexcom Stadium, however, having been released from Andy Farrell’s Ireland squad.
Bundee Aki, Mack Hansen, Finlay Bealham and Cian Prendergast will remain with Ireland ahead of Saturday’s final November test against Australia at the Aviva Stadium.
Outside back Santi Cordero will join Heffernan in being available to face the Bulls after Argentina wrapped their autumn tour with a 37-23 defeat to France in Paris last Friday.
Connacht otherwise have a relatively clean bill of health heading into the next block of URC fixtures. Their only other long-term absentee, out-half JJ Hanrahan (ACL), is tracking towards a return in mid-January.
No surprise whatsoever. Contepomi is obviously a bit more switched on than Pete Wilkins is. How many more weeks is this spoofer going to pull the wool over the eyes of Wilkins and Connacht rugby.
@Ray Ridge: Read the article not the headline…you’re only proving how much of a spoofer you lol
@anthony davoren: I don’t need to read anything. I just need to look at his efforts in the 6 URC rounds to date. He’s just going through the motions out there at the expense of up and coming home-made talent. It has to stop.
Leinsters attack under Contepomi and Lancaster in the 21/22 season was peak. Goodman was a downgrade on Contepomi clearly and also looks a downgrade on Mike Catt. The worrying thing is that players in the Leinster camp have said Bleyendal is similar to Goodman.
@Eoin H: give him a chance for f sake.
Same thing was said about A.F when he was announced. Failed under schmidt in 19 and Lancaster in 15. Mike Catt was also not up to the job.
Gotta wait till this time next year at the earliest to know if Goodman is the right fit for ireland