Fogarty: ‘I don’t think Jack is in a big slump’

Jack McGrath’s Ireland misfortune is Leinster’s opportunity, according to the province’s scrum coach John Fogarty.

The Leinster loosehead prop featured just once in Ireland’s November internationals, against Fiji, with Cian Healy and Dave Kilcoyne selected for the South Africa and Argentina tests.

It’s a new situation for the 28 year-old prop who has been one of the first choice players under Schmidt since after the 2015 World Cup.