IRFU must be ready for potential player drain

IT IS only a matter of time before one of our high profile younger players takes flight and the danger then is that it might encourage others to do likewise.

The fact that the O’Gara’s, O’Driscoll’s and O’Connell’s of Irish rugby choose the stay at home during the noughties made it fashionable for others to stay.

That will change and Leinster could well be the first to suffer.