Ringrose will be a star. Some great touches last night and put in some big hits too in defence. Always looking to offload. Playing on the wing but surely his long term position is 13 …
I’m not sure. I think Schmidt will follow the Henshaw model. Look to see him regularly involved with Leinster then start bringing him into training squads first.
What is going for him is that it should be abundantly clear at this stage that Fitzgerald and Earls are not 13’s despite multiple attempts to make them so. We need to move on from that.
He’ll need to be given gametime at 13 for Leinster though. At the moment they seem to favour Teo but that doesn’t do anything for the national team. A potential centre partnership of Henshaw and Ringrose is something we should look to have in place in about 2 years.
I hope he doesn’t go like Luke Fitzgerald and is just put on the wing and gets shunted around. He needs to learn the pro game from 13 as much as possible.
Thats a bit like Newcastle and Sunderland at the moment. Two shite teams slugging it out for no more than bragging rights. If Leinster were playing anyone else tonight, they would have got eaten alive. Dito Munster, the 24 conceded would have been 48