Prendergast and Crowley to compete for no10 shirt this spring - the first needs a Leinster starting spot, the second Munster wins.
Andy Farrell 's Ireland got there in the end, overhauling a 10-point early deficit and having got their noses in front, held firm.
READ MORE: Caelan Doris doesn't want to see team stand-still under his captaincy as they end 2024 with Australia win Prendergast? Well, despite a lot of ill-informed talk about Stuart Lancaster and his time at the province, Leo Cullen picks the team at Leinster and, under a little pressure having not won a trophy for three seasons, he will be pivotal to the youngster's progress in the short-term.
That he got his way in all three cases could mean anything from these were Cullen's ideas in the first place or that he acquiesced. Team selection next Thursday for the Blues opener at Bristol will be a signpost worth watching for. "Like everyone, especially the new caps, you give them the opportunity because of the potential and, yeah, they've earned the right to get that look in an international window but it's what they do with it now.
Munster won on Saturday at home to Lions breaking a run that included four away defeats in their last five games. But with five difficult matches on the spin to come Castres away, Ulster away, Leinster, Saracens at home and then Northampton away it would not be ideal, tempting fate, to have the out-half coming into the Six Nations with, say, another four defeats from five.
Yet that seven of those who started against Australia were 30-somethings and a further six were past their 26th birthdays isn't altered by the return of Furlong or Sheehan. Gus McCarthy deserves great credit but lord knows when the third/fourth-choice Leinster hooker will be getting his next game time. He should be loaned to any club worldwide who expresses an interest as, at minimum, the experience would be of benefit to him as a player.
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