It’s not all about the money, insists Scott Fardy

If money was all that mattered there wouldn’t be a top-class professional rugby player left in Ireland.

Reports in yesterday’s Irish Examiner that Montpellier were willing to offer a yearly pay package of €840,000 for CJ Stander’s services made that much all the more obvious and it begs the question as to why any foreign player would choose these shores over France or England.

That very point was put to Scott Fardy yesterday.