Rejuvenated Ulster winger has made more his mark on the early stages of the URC season
Jacob Stockdale, the Ulster winger has made more metres and beaten more defenders than any other player in the league.
The eye-catching numbers he has generated this season are the kind people expect from Stockdale, whose strike rate for Ireland is around a try every two matches, or 19 tries over 37 caps.Connacht Rugby plan to have fully professional women’s team within five yearsHis current form even moved Ulster coach Richie Murphy to name-check him earlier this week before Farrell announced Wednesday’s 35-man Irish squad.
Injury has played its part in his current low profile at international level. An injured ankle in Ulster’s first match of the 2021-22 season required surgery and a season was lost. That began the long hiatus away from Irish teams, the 2023 game against Italy in the World Cup warm-up his first international start since 2021.
Ireland’s Jacob Stockdale scores a try against England at Twickenham in 2018. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho It has been a long six years since he scored his record seven tries in a Six Nations Championship with two against Italy, Wales and Scotland and one against England in Twickenham on St Patrick’s Day. At that stage no Irish player could match him for scoring. The try against England was the then 22-year-old’s 11th try in nine Test matches with another to come later in November against New Zealand.
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