WATCH: Joe Schmidt: ‘It would be a real risk’ to play Robbie Henshaw this weekend

“We got it scanned, there’s a little bit of blood there.”

WATCH: Joe Schmidt: ‘It would be a real risk’ to play Robbie Henshaw this weekend
Thu, 17 Sep, 2015 - 17:45

Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt isn’t willing to risk injury to first-choice centre Robbie Henshaw by playing him this weekend.

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