Tadhg Furlong fighting fit and eager to tame the Tigers again via IrishTimesSport
Nor did he have any doubt that he would make it back for that round four match.
“I was watching it with friends of mine and Seánie O’Brien was beside me, and you are very much a spectator, but with a small bit more inside knowledge about what’s going on.” His energy levels felt good, albeit he felt he was a little reactive rather than proactive. Furlong’s rustiness may have been a factor in him making three very uncharacteristic handling errors against England, but he sounds as unperturbed now as he looked at the time.“It’s a hard thing to do, to actually do it, to stay calm and actually move on if something bad happened, but it’s something we’ve been working on for two or three years.
No two such triumphs are every quite the same and while James Ryan, older and wiser, admitted he appreciated this one more than 2018, for Furlong it was different in another way. “We think there’s more in us. We think we can keep growing and walk towards a World Cup. Wherever that brings us, it brings us, but I think there is that acknowledgment of it.”
In an interesting subplot, Furlong will be coming up against James Cronin, whom he knows from Irish camps.
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