Stephen Ferris urges RG Snyman to keep focus on returning for Munster

RG Snyman. Picture: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Stephen Ferris knows better than most what it is to fight the good fight against injury.

An ankle problem finally got him in the end, the former Ulster, Ireland, and Lions flanker raging against the dying of the light for well over a year before one last comeback attempt in the spring ended with retirement shortly after. His advice to RG Snyman, whose season looks to be over after re-rupturing an ACL against Scarlets on Sunday, would be to follow the path laid by ex-Ulster forward Marcel Coetzee who suffered the same double misfortune and is back playing “reasonably” well.