Cian Healy embracing his new replacement role for Ireland as Farrell focuses on ensuring bench strength
Finlay Bealham and Cian Healy both came off the bench against South Africa. With Andrew Porter and Tadhg Furlong healthy, it’s a role props have been adjusting to playing with rule number one ingrained – the level cannot drop.
“It’s been an enjoyable learning curve and I’ve loved it. I’ve bounced it off a lot of the back rows, because they’re always in and out and changing, and asking them how they deal with it. It’s been a real good help having people there to guide me.” If his job is to add impact or do a holding job for 20 minutes, then nutritionally he also needs to adjust and does not need the same levels of fuel in his body. In the last three games against the Springboks and South Africa he has been a replacement 17 and on the pitch for no more than 20 minutes in each for a total of 47 minutes. At the weekend it was 12 minutes.
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