VIDEO: Felix Jones: Don’t rush rising stars like Garry Ringrose into senior ranks

Felix Jones believes Joe Schmidt is right to delay the promotion of youngsters such as Garry Ringrose into the senior Test ranks.

The absence of Ringrose from the Ireland Six Nations squad was met with some disappointment by segments of the rugby community, after the Leinster centre’s star turns with Leo Cullen’s side this season and it re-enforced a perception that Irish rugby is slow in general to give youth its head.

There have been certain exceptions to that rule.