LONDON Tuesday: Wales’s outstanding full-back Leigh Halfpenny is likely to miss the beginning of his country’s Six Nations campaign due to an ongoing battle with concussion, his Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac said Tuesday.
The 30-year-old has been out of action since the Test with Australia on November 10 and Pivac said the latest prognosis had been made following a visit by the 80-times capped star to a specialist.
Prior to this Halfpenny had been on the brink of a comeback for Scarlets against Cardiff but pulled out because he was plagued by headaches. Wales’ opening Six Nations game is against France in Paris on February 1, followed by a clash with Italy in Rome eight days later.
“Leigh has seen the specialist and won’t be used for the next three to five weeks,” said Pivac.
“He will continue training and doing what he’s been doing, and then he will be reassessed.
“It will be somewhere between three to five weeks, but these things take time. That’s the time-frame we’re looking at.
“Leigh won’t play before that time, that will be the earliest. We will pass on the medical information to the Welsh Rugby Union.”
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