London Welsh signs up Gavin Henson
The latest episode in the Gavin Henson saga is that he has signed for Aviva Premiership newcomers London Welsh.
Lyn Jones, Henson’s former coach at the Ospreys where he enjoyed his most successful career spell, said, “Gavin has a great talent but over the past three or four seasons he has not realised his full potential for a number of reasons that are well documented.”
“I sincerely hope and believe he can now draw a line under that period and move forward again with London Welsh.”
This will be his second spell in the top-flight English league after an ill-fated couple of months with Saracens before he joined Toulon.
How he fits in with the newly-promoted squad will be fascinating to see, and all jokes aside, it would be great to see the talented centre playing his best rugby in the Aviva Premiership.
What do you think? Will Henson finally settle down and play some decent rugby?
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If Gav keeps his head down and gets on with it then I don’t see any issue with this signing – plus they’re getting him at a real bargain if reports are to be believed. He’s still got talent, it just needs to be made clear that: 1. he will be watched very closely and 2. this is the last chance saloon. Lyn Jones has been very realistic about his expectations of Gav, and if there’s anybody who can keep him in good working order it’s the coach under whom he played his best rugby.
He needs to get his match fitness back and sort out his off-field issues – by all accounts he trained hard at Cardiff Blues and still has all the awareness he used to have. I hope it works out for him. My biggest worry is that London Welsh will become the whipping-boys of the premiership – this will have a terrible effect on all their players, not just Henson.
Fortunately London doesn’t offer many off field distractions! He’d be better off at Orkney RFC.
I heard Jersey were having a good pop in the lower leagues. Shove him on an island and see how that goes!
Probably everyone else would leave!
Actually even though it’s easy to make fun of him (because of his own actions) I genuinely hope all goes well for him and Cips because the game will be better to watch with those two actually playing the rugby that we know they are capable of.
I do however add in a dose of realism by not expecting this to happen, but I would like to be surprised.
If there was a movie made about GH, I don’t think the LW part would be the best part it would be the latter middle part when they use those cinematic voice-over echoes as he’s having drinking on a soggy couch. “Turned over again, Henson backtracks to cover and goes in with the tackle but..” Unless, they actually play well!
Good luck to him though.