Ireland captain has shaken off a dead leg for final November international
Ireland captain Johnny Sexton has declared himself fit for Saturday night's game against Australia. Photograph: Tom Maher/InphoAs expected, Johnny Sexton has declared himself fully fit for Ireland’s concluding Bank of Ireland Nations Series match against Australia at the Aviva Stadium next Saturday night .
“Last week was a bit of a struggle with swelling and fluid, and stuff like that. So, it was just managing that and then making sure I got the right amount of training in this week to be able to perform, but also not do too much that swelled it up again.In Sexton’s absence, Carbery started while Jack Crowley made his debut off the bench as a replacement for the last 35 minutes, and is almost certainly going to be on the bench again.
“Within that, the coaches will have spoken to him about how to keep improving, like they always do. They’re still doing that with every player. So they did well and for Jack especially, he’s young and where he wants to take his career is totally up to him. He’s got the brain, the talent, he’s got everything going, he just needs to go and fulfil it now.”
“They’re the things we need to work on but there’s areas of our game from the South Africa game. I’m not putting it all down to the Fiji game – that teams are going to come after us in a different way because of whatever – if you want to say we’re the number one team in the world or we’ve got some good results under our belt. They’re going to come after us and try to mess us up. Over the two games so far, we haven’t handled that as well as we would have liked.
Sexton’s long-time English rival and occasional Lions team-mate, Owen Farrell, is in line to win his 100th cap for his country against New Zealand at Twickenham next Saturday, an achievement which the Irish captain described as outstanding.
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