English Premiership side are believed to have offered over €600k a season to take Crowley from Munster
Leicester Tigers are looking to bring Munster and Ireland outhalf Jack Crowley to Welford Road next season. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/InphoIreland’s options have been increased by the return from injury of Mack Hansen and Jame Lowe, as well as Garry Ringrose from suspension, with all three likely to be recalled to the starting XV.
But it is the selection of Crowley which is the most interesting, all the more so in the week that’s in it, given Leicester Tigers’ financially attractive offer to lure the Munster man to Welford Road has come to light. As a result, despite making a strong impression as a replacement at outhalf for the final quarter in the opening win over England, Crowley has been restricted to stints of 14, eight and 24 minutes, and all at fullback, in Ireland’s ensuing three games.
He overcame a few errors in the first half of last season’s Six Nations opener in Marseille with a mentally strong and telling performance, scoring 13 points in a record-breaking 38-17 away win over France, and ultimately played every minute in Ireland’s title defence. Crowley has been offered an improved, IRFU enhanced two-year, so-called Poni provincial contract before the Six Nations, but even so this evidently still comes well short of Leicester’s valuation of the versatile 25-year-old Cork man.
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