Jones aims to make every minute count

Felix Jones is not in the business of counting the minutes he gets in an Ireland jersey, but he has 80 of them to make an impression when he lines out at full-back against Georgia tomorrow.

After a six-minute cameo off the bench as a replacement for Rob Kearney in last weekend’s famous victory over South Africa, Jones will be in the starting XV, replacing the first-choice full-back in a new-look backline to face the tier-two nation from Eastern Europe at the Aviva Stadium.

“You always want to get on the pitch, get as much time as you can but the philosophy here is to make the minutes count, not count the minutes, so when I get on I try to put my best foot forward and I did what I could,” Jones told the Irish Examiner yesterday.