Blues ready to reap the fruits of Feek labour

GREG FEEK has earned his crust since leaving New Zealand and his post with the Hurricanes by moving to Dublin to find a cure for Leinster — and then Ireland’s — ailing scrums.

Joe Schmidt’s eight have already packed down opposite the beef of Racing Metro, Saracens, Clermont Auvergne and Munster to name but a few and none have come close to inflicting the type of damage Clermont and Toulouse managed late last season.

If anything, Feek’s charges have been the ones dropping calling cards, with the Irish scrum’s devastation of their English counterparts at the start of last month’s Six Nations game standing as the prime example of that.