Jackson admits frustration over fledgling international career

Paddy Jackson may be baby-faced but he isn’t one to throw toys out of the pram.

Yet the 21-year-old out-half, who enjoyed a meteoric rise from provincial stand-by to international player, made clear a handful of frustrations in the most understated of fashions yesterday.

His Test career is only four games and eight months old and yet, from that controversial debut against Scotland to his return to bench duty for most of the trip to North America under Les Kiss, it has already tested the Ulsterman’s depth of character.