Northampton Saints winger George Hendy has confirmed that his season is over after present process an operation on his shoulder.
The 22-year-old was pressured from the sphere clutching his shoulder after a matter of minutes of the Saints’ Investec Champions Cup quarter-final final month in opposition to Castres following a mazy run. His director of rugby Phil Dowson confirmed after the match that he had dislocated his shoulder and could be out for a “substantial period of time”.
Northampton went on to win the match 51-16 to guide a repeat of final 12 months’s semi-final in opposition to Leinster on the Aviva Stadium, which Hendy will after all be absent for. The winger’s alternative in opposition to Castres, George Furbank, will also miss the trip to Dublin after aggravating the arm he broke in December when crossing the road in opposition to the Top 14 outfit.
“Not the best finish to my season however can’t wait to observe the boys rip in these subsequent few weeks. Wanting ahead to getting again on the market subsequent season,” he wrote on social media from his hospital mattress.
A member of the England A squad that defeated Ireland A in February, final season’s Gallagher Premiership ultimate participant of the match would have been in Steve Borthwick’s plans for England’s fixtures in opposition to Argentina and the USA in July.
Together with his Saints team-mate Tommy Freeman all however a certainty to go on the British and Irish Lions tour on the finish of the season, Furbank a contender to go along with him and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso nonetheless injured, there have been going to be some vacancies out huge for England in Argentina which Hendy would have eyed filling.
The previous England U20 worldwide will now have to attend till subsequent season to proceed his journey in direction of the senior nationwide set-up.
