Van Graan admits ‘worry’ over Bleyendaal injury

Johann van Graan is not sugar-coating the concern within Munster about Tyler Bleyendaal’s return to the sidelines with another neck injury. The New Zealand-born fly-half has a history of serious neck injuries, the first of which delayed the former All Blacks U20 captain’s arrival in Munster from Canterbury and the Crusaders by several months until January 2015.

Bleyendaal did not make his Munster debut for another nine months and suffered a neck injury in 2017-18.