Gordon D’Arcy

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · What to make of Andy Farrell's Ireland squad to tour Australia and New Zealand · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So it'll be interesting.

Training will be interesting, I would have said, and perhaps inform what they might be thinking about.

I think it's pretty open at the moment as to who might start with Billy being the youngest and obviously uncapped probably in third place just for that reason more than anything else.

But he will get experience and you would imagine that he'll get a run at some point in the Japan game.

And I think that's probably, there's a little bit of that in the squad as well.

So the alternatives to some of, of what we've discussed already there, I personally think that Jude Possilthwaite might have toured.

And I think taking him would be interesting.

I'd be interested to see where Jimmy O'Brien plays.

He's a bit like the Swiss army knife of, uh,

provincial and Irish rugby.

He has many utilities.

I would like to see him play in the centre a little bit.

I think that as a full back and wing, there are other options there.

So Ireland have to be a little bit more creative in the centre.

And I would like to see some outside the box thinking in terms of how they set up at times and what they'd look to do

going forward because and Gordon has touched on this there it's a relatively short run in tests wise to the next World Cup so if you were to get injuries to a couple of key players you're just looking to say well where is the depth

And a classic example is loose head prop.

So if you take it that of the players that we've mentioned that are injured and didn't travel like Jack Boyle, Andrew Porter, obviously first, then Jack Boyle, Paddy McCarthy, all have played loose head, then you're drilling down into the depth chart there.

And I think there's a number of positions where Ireland don't have that luxury.

And I don't think, I think the gap between the player that's there and players of potential, we'll say,

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