McFadden may get kicking call

The Irish jersey hasn’t been a good place to be in 2013.

That’s about to change. There’s a nice edge to the new set up. An energy, a rawness.

Nervous energy is good in professional sport. There are seasoned internationals in camp this week, many of them starting tomorrow, who feel like they are winning their first cap. Who feel they have to produce that first-cap live-or-die performance that keeps them inside the tent, and not outside, for the Australia and All Black tests this autumn.