Eire head coach Andy Farrell has dismissed considerations a couple of lack of membership motion for a few of his gamers going into the Guinness Six Nations
Covid-related postponements at provincial stage have hampered preparations for subsequent weekend’s match opener towards Wales.
Farrell believes a powerful autumn marketing campaign – throughout which the in-form Irish swept apart Japan, New Zealand and Argentina to stretch their profitable run to eight video games – proves his crew can carry out on the again of restricted recreation time.
And, with wings James Lowe and Jacob Stockdale the one main absentees for the championship, the Englishman is content material simply to be comparatively injury-free.
“For those who requested me: ‘would you like most of your guys match and raring to go and able to play in comparison with, say, enjoying the final eight video games and being injured?’, we’d relatively everybody on board,” mentioned Farrell.
“So it’s what it’s. We went via this within the autumn, didn’t we? Everybody was speaking about our lack of recreation time.
“There aren’t any excuses, you’ve simply obtained to get on with it and we’ll be raring to go as a gaggle.”
Farrell’s 37-man squad are at the moment fine-tuning preparations for the match at a camp in Portugal.
Forward of flying out, Ulster lock Iain Henderson – who has not performed since sustaining an ankle difficulty on December 17 – was the one member of the travelling celebration not anticipated to instantly start full coaching.
Captain Johnny Sexton additionally put a constructive spin on potential rustiness inside the group, whereas stating that the difficulty is just not distinctive to Eire.
“I believe there are quite a lot of different nations in precisely the identical place,” mentioned the fly-half, who has made just one begin for Leinster since Eire’s autumn fixtures following harm and a coronavirus an infection.
“And the great factor for us is we’re in a really comparable place to November.
Johnny Sexton has made just one begin for Leinster since Eire’s autumn marketing campaign (Brian Lawless/PA)
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“That was my concern coming into November that we hadn’t performed sufficient as a result of usually once you come into November you’ve had two European video games, that are clearly the next high quality and nearer to worldwide stage.
“We didn’t have that in November however the way in which we educated and ready allowed us to hit the bottom operating and, to have a aggressive setting like we do right here, coaching could be as powerful as a recreation generally.
“Like Andy mentioned, no excuses. We’ve accomplished it earlier than and you’ll take a look at it two methods: you possibly can say you’re underdone or you possibly can say you’re actually contemporary and raring to go.
“I believe we’re in that bracket. We’ve had sufficient rugby, guys have been coaching exhausting, actually within the setting I’ve been in.”
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