Dave Kearney fighting back after injury misery with Leinster

There are good times to be injured, bad times to be injured and then there is Dave Kearney’s appalling luck this season.

Of Leinster’s 26 games in league and Europe so far, the winger has featured in just six. A long-term ankle injury caused his absence for most of the other 20, then a troublesome toe issue nipped his comeback in the bud, and all this at a time when Leinster have been racking up cricket scores.

Kearney made 16 appearances last term when chances were at a premium. The province claimed just 59 tries in 32 games, a rate of 1.85 per game. The Louth back signed for just two of them. This term has been very, very different, with Leinster so far managing 116, or 4.45 per game.