Modesty forbids for exciting prospect Garry Ringrose

Few 21-year olds have a fan club to match that of Garry Ringrose.

It isn’t just the volume of people who have latched on to Leinster’s exciting outside-centre so much as the identity of some of them. Brian O’Driscoll has been a consistent cheerleader, Isa Nacewa says he could be world-class and Shane Horgan has beaten his drum loudly on RTÉ.

Horgan went so far as to say that the inclusion of the still raw Ringrose in the senior Ireland team could be a game-changerer, but the praise slips off the Blackrock graduate like so many futile tackles as he weaves such a promising career.