RISING IRELAND STAR Joey Carbery won’t be adding to his four international caps this summer after the 21-year-old was ruled out of the two upcoming Tests against Japan with an ankle injury.
The 21-year-old picked up the injury in Saturday’s victory against the US Eagles in New Jersey, a match that wasn’t going his way even before he was forced to leave the field with the ailment after 51 minutes.
Carbery had two kicks blocked down for tries and missed three conversions before his evening came to a premature end.
A subsequent scan has revealed the Leinster out-half/fullback will be out of action for four weeks, meaning he will be unavailable for the games against Japan on the next two Saturdays.
With Ulster’s Paddy Jackson linking up with the squad this week Ireland have a ready-made replacement for Carbery, and as it stands head coach Joe Schmidt won’t be calling up a replacement to the squad.
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Recover, get a savage pre-season in and come back firing for the new season. Do him no harm.
Didn’t go his was against USA but it would have been a good experience for him to get a full tour in
@David Lyons: Was at the game. Didn’t go his way, at all. But that’s when you stand by a young player. He’ll come good in a few years
@Diarmuid Colfer: He’s shown he is good enough and some people are really overreacting. He was trying to do too much against a team that weren’t on Irelands level, he will definitely come good
@David Lyons: agree with all of you. You’d forget how young he is given what he’s achieved so far. No rush with him.
bigger blow for Japan to be honest
“Rising Ireland star” – jaysus the hype train just doesnt know when to stop does it? He’s got 4 caps and six points to his name.
@David: Do you know what “rising star” means? Ah “jaysus” you probably don’t. It means he has the potential to be a great player in the near future. He’s 21 and has gone from playing AIL for Clontarf to playing for Ireland in the matter of months. That’s exactly what rising star means.