Glasgow coach Kenny admits win soured by Fagerson blow
ASSISTANT coach Kenny Murray has admitted that Glasgow Warriors’ weekend win in South Africa was spoiled by the seriousness of the injury suffered by international prop Zander Fagerson.
Confirming that the 22-year-old had suffered a broken leg, Murray said it was too early to tell how long he will be out of action after he underwent surgery at the start of the week, but he will clearly be sidelined for some time.
“It was a good win at the weekend but having a player like that injured took the gloss of it a fair bit,” he said.
“He’s had excellent medical care and when he gets back home he will go for further scans with the appropriate medical staff and that will let us know how long he is going to be out. We can’t put a time on it at the moment, but it is likely to be months rather than weeks we’ll have to see what the medics say back in Scotland. It is a fracture on the lower leg and it takes a bit man like that a bit of time to recover, but he’s had a really successful operation and we’ll find out more next week.”
They should meanwhile find out this week the extent of the damage suffered by Stuart Hogg after he was sent home early from the two week trip to South Africa having missed that defeat of the Cheetahs.
“It might be nothing wrong but we will find out the extent of it. It could be nothing but for us and Scotland we want it scanned quickly,” said Murray.
He meanwhile denied reports that lock Brian Alainu’uese, who made a considerable impact early in his Glasgow career two years ago, but has not featured since last October due to injury, has been on trial at French club Toulon, while confirming that the 21 stone, 6’8” New Zealander has had discussions with the threetime European champions.
“He is not on trial,” said Murray.”He is out of contract next season(so) will be looking at different options but he is certainly not able to run about or play on trial. We are speaking to him. He is not running about. He is not trialling. He is having a discussion and a chat. That was the extent of it. There