In Andy Farrell’s final game before taking up the Lions job he picked the young Leinster outhalf to start against Australia
In Andy Farrell’s final game before taking up the Lions job he picked the Leinster outhalf to start against Australiawas rostered for media duties along with Paul O’Connell, James Ryan and Josh van der Flier in the High Performance Centre at Sport Ireland, the impression he gave was not that of a player who knew thatCrowley spoke with confidence about the regular turbulence around the position and defaulted to how the team always comes first and that sitting it out against Fiji served not to...
Prendergast’s defence will be tested more rigorously and the Australian back row will target him and disrupt his passing game to a greater degree than Fiji were able to do. It’s a challenge Crowley has never had to deal with before, the squad competition with injury-hampered Joey Carbery in Munster not of the same magnitude, and it may take some mental adjustment for him to process his current position as an 18 cap, 24-year-old being squeezed by a two cap, 21-year-old.
“Pressure’s good,” he said yesterday. “It’s what concentrates the mind, you see where your character’s at.” The Leinster environment is a shark pool compared to the other provinces with Prendergast swimming with Frawley, Ross and Harry Byrne and in the coming months or years an Austrian-born teenager in the Academy called Casper Gabriel, who Leinster plucked straight from school at Terenure College.
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