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Latest update on Liam Williams' injury comeback is a worry
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Liam Williams looks set to be unavailable for Wales until the Guinness Six Nations Championship's latter stages.
The Saracens back has not played since suffering an ankle injury ahead of Wales' World Cup semi-final against South Africa last October.
"Liam's struggling a bit at the moment," said Wales defence coach Byron Hayward.
"It (Saturday's game against Ireland) is a little bit early for Liam. We are possibly looking at the fourth or fifth games in the Championship."
After Ireland, Wales host France on February 22 before their March 7 appointment with England at Twickenham. They then tackle Scotland at home seven days later.
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"But look at all the positives - the boys all worked well last weekend (against Italy)," Hayward added.
"Leigh Halfpenny had a great game last weekend at full-back, though it would be nice to get Liam back, obviously."
Centre Owen Watkin, scrum-half Gareth Davies and hooker Elliot Dee are all back in training following recent injuries.
- Press Association
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Look there are a few unarguable facts here that are very clear. SARU was close to bankruptcy with SR, bailed out by the Lions and they need the URC and EPCR. Inclusion of SA teams in URC has been a great for for ALL concerned, from a rugby perspective and financially, moreover there is massive growth yet to come. The GP is in financial trouble and this will be the catalyst for EPCR change to further cement the Boks.
If this all plays out with even greater rewards for the urc AND the Top14 & GP via EPCR, the 6N will become 7N. Nz and Aus NEED to get their version firing with Japan & the PI’s, otherwise they will find themselves increasingly regressing…
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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