Sherry ruled out for up to eight weeks

MUNSTER training might have had a stellar appearance to it yesterday but look a little closer and the creases on coach Tony McGahan’s furrowed brow were all too evident.

Already without the luckless Jerry Flannery, McGahan confirmed yesterday they have lost Mike Sherry for six to eight weeks with an ankle injury sustained in a club game for Garryowen last weekend.

That could rule the hooker, who spent a few actionless days at the World Cup after Flannery’s return, out of the pre-Christmas rounds of the Heineken Cup, which kicks off on November 12 at home to Northampton.