Jones just loves the big stage

Having endured a number of injury-plagued seasons, Felix Jones is glad

No-one will enjoy tonight’s Leinster-Munster showdown at the Aviva more than Felix Jones. Not because he’s been going to these games since he was kid, the majority of players tonight will have grown up doing that. Nor because he’s a player who left his native province and crossed the fence to join the neighbours, there’s a few of those in both camps.

Neither is there a particular point he feels like proving to Joe Schmidt, at least that he’s prepared to air publicly, with tonight’s opposite number 15 Rob Kearney standing between him and further Test recognition beyond his five caps.