VIDEO: Versatile Iain Henderson ticks all boxes

Versatility... It’s been rugby’s buzz word of the summer and nobody’s name has been more prominent in that conversation than Iain Henderson’s who is moonlighting as a lock right now despite his growing renown as a flanker in Ulster.

Henderson has always been pegged as a contender for either the second or back rows, but there was a pleasing symmetry in the seam of Saturday’s outing at the Aviva Stadium despite the discouraging result and nature of the home team’s performance.

All the focus might have inevitably centred on Paul O’Connell’s last appearance for his country on home soil, but stationed alongside him was Henderson who was starting his first game in Dublin as a lock.