Sam Prendergast explains why he decided to stay and fight for his place at Leinster.
TOWARDS THE END of last season Sam Prendergast weighed up his options. The path he was on involved staying at Leinster and wrestling with Ciarán Frawley and the Byrne brothers for minutes at out-half. The alternative was to follow his older brother, Cian, across to Galway and become a Connacht player, where he could build experience before returning to his home province.
“Eventually I just decided this is the place. Well, I suppose I never had to think about whether this was the place for me, but it was just how do I get to being the number one here. I think that’s a constant battle because there’s always people ahead of you and there’s always people coming up behind you.”Prendergast is a confident, ambitious 21-year-old.
With Simon Easterby and attack coach Andrew Goodman keen to load the squad with detail, there was an obvious benefit to having a 10 who was a step ahead of most of his teammates. Prendergast toured with the senior Ireland squad over the summer. Dan Sheridan / INPHO Dan Sheridan / INPHO / INPHO “That’s the good thing. You could think you played a 10 out of 10 game, but you go back and there’s so many different things you can get better at. And that’s just because there’s so many moving parts and so many things you have to organise.
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