Jack Crowley, the incumbent Ireland out-half, has been under scrutiny during the recent international test window. His performance, alongside Sam Prendergast, has been noted, with a positive cameo alongside Craig Casey against Australia.
Jack Crowley is coming off the back of an Ireland international test window where - and it is up to him - the glass is either half-empty or full.
READ MORE: Munster worry about the four international game test window putting huge demands on players' bodiesThat's pairing that could be central to Munster thinking for the next six years but one that has more immediate present days demands, the opening European Rugby Cup games with Stade Francais on Saturday at Thomond Park Says Crowley: “I’d absolutely agree. I’m very close with Craig and he is someone whom I’ve seen put the work in over the last number of years.
"I really think that all the work he has put in has certainly come out in the games that he’s performed in, because he’s putting in top level performances, it’s a pleasure to play outside him because his delivery his top class.“Yeah, I guess an important point is you look at the half-backs and the no9s around Ireland at the moment, 'Murr' in terms of his running game, his show-and-go’s and around the breakdown.
Crowley has had time to digest the November international window and knows that his performances between now and late January - four Champions Cup games with inter-provincials at Ulster and at home to Leinster sandwiched in-between - will be in the spotlight. "Sometimes when you’re an impact player, you don’t know if it could be the first ten minutes you come on and with someone going off with an injury or you could be doing a ten or 15 minute cameo if someone is off for a HIA."It’s something that’s always been a goal of mine to be the best possible version of myself no matter what I’m doing, in what I’m doing on and off the pitch.
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