Halfpenny fit for England Clash. – Huge Rugby News

Warren Gatland will be delighted.

The Scarlets revealed this morning that Leigh Halfpenny is on the brink of making his long-awaited comeback following concussion.

The Wales and Lions full-back has been out of action for 3 months after taking a blow to the head from in a controversial collision with Sami Kerevi when Wales played the Wallabies on November 10.

Halfpenny was named in the original 39-man squad for the Six Nations with Gatland hoping he would recover in time for the latter rounds of the tournament. He is hopeful that Halfpenny (30) will get some game-time for the Scarlets in their Guinness PRO14 fixture with Benetton this weekend.

“To do full contact he has got to be symptom free and Leigh has been symptom free, he trained with us last Thursday and Friday and yesterday he did everything, full contact, full tackling,” said Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac.

“We had a mini-game scenario, what we call level three which is a game scenario so there is no hiding places.

“He was taking high balls, getting clattered. He did everything he needed to do.

“He goes back to Wales available, we feed back information, medical team to medical team and I have passed a little note on to Warren.”

“Warren will make a call on what he does from there. I think we are going to get a message on who, if any, are going to get released after Wales training on Wednesday.”

It will give Gatland a selection headache for the 15 jersey. Liam Williams has been in superb form in the 15 jersey being one of their star performers in the tournament so far and no one can deny he gives Wales a huge attacking threat in comparison to Halfpenny’s ‘safe & reliable’ style of play.