In January Henderson told The Area News he was enjoying his best pre-season since becoming a fixture in the NRL, but a Saturday morning training accident again put a dint in his plans to cement a starting position from round one.

“It’s obviously not ideal because I’ve missed the trials again, so I haven’t had a trial game for about the past three or four years now,” Henderson said.

“We were playing a fitness game and I was chasing Preston Campbell down, and obviously I was never going to catch him, but I tried anyway, and I dove and jammed my foot into the ground.

“I didn’t know it was broken for a couple of weeks, nobody knew is was that bad, but I still couldn’t train and then the club sent me to have some X-rays and they said I’d broken my big toe.

“It’s not serious just frustrating really.”

Henderson joked he would prefer to be a part of the main training squad saying the rehabilitation group often works twice as hard in order to get back on the paddock.

“There is a pretty set program for guys in rehab, and sometimes in fact most of the time it’s harder because you might lose a bit of leg conditioning, but you do that much rowing, boxing and cycling,” he said.

Henderson will not travel to Darwin with the Titans’ pre-season trial against North Queensland in a bid to undergo more rehabilitation ahead of its first-round match against the New Zealand Warriors on March 14.