Rugby Daily | Big injury boost for Ireland ahead of AB test in Eden Park, Seán Jansen's personal growth
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Football on Off the Ball. This is the issue of international management, isn't it? It's not that easy to find tests against the big teams and can't replicate the competitive environment of a World Cup or a Euro, particularly a World Cup.
Join in the obsession. Subscribe now at offtheball.com forward slash join. Off the Ball's Rugby Daily. With Bank of Ireland, a proud sponsor of Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster Rugby. Never stop competing. You are very welcome along to Tuesday's Rugby Daily. I'm Cameron Hill. Now coming up for you today, the first soundings from both the Ireland and New Zealand camps ahead of an Eden Park showdown this weekend. The Ireland under-20s survive a chaotic clash with Fiji at the Junior World Championships. How has New Ireland cap Sean Jansen adjusted to life in Galway? We'll hear from a former Connacht teammate of his. And more unity but still plenty of uncertainty on the future of Welsh rugby. First up today, Ireland have arrived in Auckland ahead of Saturday's Nations Championship Test with the All Blacks at Eden Park.
Andy Farrell's side returned to New Zealand soil for the first time since their series win back in 2022. The All Blacks have won all three of the subsequent tests between the two sides. including the World Cup quarter-final in 2023 and last November's test in Chicago. On the injury front, Jeremy Lachman and Rob Ballachoon are expected to be available for Saturday's game. Ballachoon was due to start on the right wing against Australia in Sydney two weeks ago, but withdrew just ahead of the game with a hamstring issue, while Lachman was forced off with a head injury during that 33-31 win over the Wallabies. Assistant coach Andrew Goodman confirmed today that all 36 players in the squad took full part in training in Auckland earlier and are available for the weekend.
The New Zealand native is looking forward to facing the All Blacks at Eden Park. They're unbeaten in 52 tests there going back to 1994.
Oh, it's special, special. We need time to play. new zealand and to play the midden park what we know the history of the stadium and uh you know it's probably the home of new zealand rugby really is for the for the new zealand team so um yeah we're really excited about being here and um having the opportunity to go and put our best foot forward and
It's the first time that Ireland will face New Zealand in the Dave Rennie era. The former Australia boss took over from Scott Robertson and began his reign with wins over France and Italy already this month. Rennie admits they may need to tweak their game plan to deal with an Ireland team that prefer to kick in play.
pre-game and again at halftime was that we've got to be prepared to kick the ball a little bit just to break the game up because then we force them to kick back to us and then we get opportunities to counter and we found that with the Italians that once they kicked back they weren't anywhere near as organised defensively and so yeah so there's got to be balance Ireland are a very good defensive side they're going to kick a lot of ball and try and apply pressure through that and So we'll need to get excited about it and work hard for opportunities, but we're going to have to balance our game out.
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