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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 944833" data-attributes="member: 76349"><p>Leinster will lose out because of this but honestly if I was the IRFU I wouldn't be offering him a central contract either. He's 33 and fairly injury prone. He definitely won't be around for the next World Cup and we badly need other players to play 15, the only other two players to play any significant amount of time at fullback for Ireland over the last 8 years are Zebo and Payne and they're both out of the picture now. </p><p></p><p>Would be terrible for Leinster, other than Larmour (who's better on the wing) we don't have a single other fullback who's anywhere near Heineken Cup standard but given that Ringrose, James Ryan, Josh Van Der Flier, Jacob Stockdale (I think) and Dan Leavy are all not on central contracts and will all need to be bumped up whenever their current deals expire I think it makes sense. Short term loss but he probably isn't worth what he wants (to Ireland and he's not going to accept a provincial offer from Leinster.) </p><p></p><p>He deserves his payday in France either way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 944833, member: 76349"] Leinster will lose out because of this but honestly if I was the IRFU I wouldn't be offering him a central contract either. He's 33 and fairly injury prone. He definitely won't be around for the next World Cup and we badly need other players to play 15, the only other two players to play any significant amount of time at fullback for Ireland over the last 8 years are Zebo and Payne and they're both out of the picture now. Would be terrible for Leinster, other than Larmour (who's better on the wing) we don't have a single other fullback who's anywhere near Heineken Cup standard but given that Ringrose, James Ryan, Josh Van Der Flier, Jacob Stockdale (I think) and Dan Leavy are all not on central contracts and will all need to be bumped up whenever their current deals expire I think it makes sense. Short term loss but he probably isn't worth what he wants (to Ireland and he's not going to accept a provincial offer from Leinster.) He deserves his payday in France either way. [/QUOTE]
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