• Exeter centre limped off during win over Leicester• Rob Baxter says he is going to be out for ‘a little while’Henry Slade has emerged as an injury concern for the start of England’s Six Nations campaign after the Exeter director of rugby, Rob Baxter, revealed the player’s injury to his right ankle is expected to be “relatively serious”.
Slade limped off during the first half of Exeter’s impressive 31-22 win over Leicester in the Premiership on Saturday, having suffered separate injuries to both ankles. The injury to the right one is considered the more serious because it is the one he dislocated in December 2015 when he also sustained a horrific leg break which required the insertion of a plate just above the joint.