Failure to stick with regular fly-half to blame for Ireland woes, says Guscott

British and Irish Lions hero Jeremy Guscott says a failure to stick with a regular Test fly-half has prevented Ireland from translating Heineken Cup success to the international arena.

Guscott believes a single Grand Slam success in 2009 does not reflect the quality of this generation of Irish players, who have achieved four Heineken Cup victories with Munster and Leinster since 2006 and have set up an all-Irish final this month between Leinster and Ulster.

The former Bath and England centre said he thought the chopping and changing at out-half between Ronan O’Gara and Jonny Sexton was a contributory factor.