Challenge for Joey Carbery to overcome Six Nations disappointment

Carbery faces a big challenge in having to overcome the obvious disappointment of sitting out at least the early stages of a Six Nations campaign

CHALLENGE: Joey Carbery during a Munster rugby squad training session. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

When Mike Prendergast predicted the likelihood of players needing a comforting word of consolation from the Munster coaches ahead of Sunday’s showdown with Toulouse, he could have hardly anticipated it would be Joey Carbery’s shoulders that needed an arm around them.

Thursday morning’s bombshell from Ireland boss Andy Farrell that Munster’s first-choice fly-half would be surplus to requirements at the start of next month’s Guinness Six Nations will have given the province’s management a jolt every bit as much as it must have felt for Carbery.