Richie Murphy: Joey Carbery and Kieran Marmion free to play ‘natural game’

Ireland’s half-back hopefuls, Joey Carbery and Kieran Marmion, have been told to forget Johnny Sexton and Conor Murray and to play to their strengths.

Richie Murphy: Joey Carbery and Kieran Marmion free to play ‘natural game’

Fly-half Carbery, 22, and scrum-half Marmion, 25, will get rare starts at Test level, this Saturday, when Ireland welcome Fiji to the Aviva Stadium.

This is the second of three Guinness Series Tests this month, as Sexton and Murray step aside, following their world-class showing, as a partnership, in last weekend’s record, 38-3 win over South Africa.

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