Utility man Nacewa brings the all-round game to Leinster

ISA NACEWA seems well settled in Ireland. A native of Auckland, or the “big smoke” as he calls it, it was easy to adapt to city life in Dublin and he’s expecting the arrival of new twins on New Year’s Eve.

Just as well, really, because settling down on the pitch has been a mite more complicated at Leinster, where he has popped up everywhere along the back line apart from scrum-half.

It wasn’t just Nacewa’s talent that sold him to Michael Cheika; it was that versatility, but neither could have foreseen just how flexible the former Auckland Blues man would need to be.