I still think we need another 15 who can take Kearney's place if he gets injured at some point during the World Cup (which is very likely as he's one of the team's oldest and more injury prone players). Which is why I didn't like the decision to go with Henshaw at 15 for the England game. He's not going to be a suitable replacement for Kearney any time soon, and he's already probably the first choice 12 and therefore unlikely to be available to move into 15 easily at a moment's notice for a big game. Particularly if there are injuries to any of the other centres.
It seems to solve one problem (helping us to get narrow the squad down to 31) but doesn't solve more important problems and actually generates new issues of its own. If we wanted to develop depth at 15, he should have played another 15 in that spot. I would have been happy with any of Conway (not an option now), Addison, or Larmour in that spot. Henshaw just seemed like an odd decision to me.
The others still have a lot of work to do before they can get to Kearney's level in terms of covering the back field, but they can get there a lot faster than Henshaw can given where they're getting their experience at club level and what their strengths are as players.
