Lazyboy346 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 3:21 pm
I'd rather go for one of their Irish qualified locks as there seem to be a fair few there and across the provinces all competing for not many spaces. Would hope we could entice one of them over with the chance to work alongside Mafi and Simmons, and hopefully stay as long term partner alongside Munya.
Do we have anyone in the academy pipeline who looks promising at lock? We seem to have have abundance of potential in most positions otherwise
Clearly no one in the senior academy and it's been pretty hard to keep track of U18 rugby, but Jarlath Gleeson may be one to watch. He's involved in the Ireland U18 squad and is a real bean pole that you can tell is going to be massive when he fills out.
He's the lifter here in the scrum cap...
Even if he or someone else does end up being decent from the U18s, in the short and medium term we'd need to look elsewhere.