Andy Farrell warns of dangers of making too many changes for Ireland’s clash with Fiji
Ross Byrne will be out of contract with Leinster at the hand of the season and has plenty of admirers. Photograph: James Crombie/Inphois continuing attract to interest from abroad, with an English club – believed to be Leicester Tigers – apparently joining the race with Montpellier to sign the 29-year-old.
Byrne is Leinster’s third-highest points score of all time behind Johnny Sexton and Felipe Contepomi, with 1,120 points in his 168 appearances for the province, and has already attracted firm interest from Montpellier.
But it’s not Farrell’s style to necessarily give game time to every member of his squad and he sounded cautious about rotating too much against the Flying Fijians, who did experiment for their 33-19 win over Spain in Valladolid on Saturday, a week on from their historic win over Wales. “We’ll see how the bodies fare up, but we do need to have a think about how we roll on because Fiji are unbelievably dangerous as we saw last week against Wales,” said Farrell. “At the same time, so are Australia. Four games on the bounce, we’ve got to manage that realistically. We need to pick a side that’s going to perform and what you don’t do is give everyone a game that’s been unfortunate not to play so far.
Jack Crowley played every minute of last season’s Six Nations and the first Test in South Africa, but he was replaced around the hour mark for the third game running last Friday night when, for the second match in a row, Ireland were leading.
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