Reddan refusing to use fatigue as excuse

It has been a marathon season for Eoin Reddan and his Irish teammates but the Leinster scrum-half is not for making excuses ahead of a daunting three-test series with the world champions.

Many in the Irish camp began pre-season training in June of last year and are fast approaching clocking up 12 months of continuous rugby.

“You look at the statistic that it is a 51-week season but it isn’t (really) because we get weeks off,” said Reddan of his heavy workload.