Easterby blasts IRFU’s new foreign player plans

LEINSTER manager Guy Easterby has joined the chorus of criticism directed at the IRFU’s new policy on player succession.

From the 2013-2014 season on, the IRFU will only allow one foreign player per position to play in this country across the three provinces — Leinster, Munster and Ulster — but Easterby says he has no idea how this new ruling will work in practice.

There’s bound to be a scenario eventually when more than one province will covet a foreign player for the same position, and Easterby is in no doubt that will cause friction.