Pound for pound, is Nacewa Ireland’s best rugby import?

Every position in the back line has been filled by Leinster’s Isa Nacewa, including scrum-half where he excelled in one game last season when Luke McGrath was sinbinned. The veteran New Zealander even scored a try while holding that fort, writes Brendan O’Brien

Pound for pound, is Nacewa Ireland’s best rugby import?

There was no more than seven minutes to go at the Estadio Monumental Jose Fierro in Tucaman four summers ago when Ian Madigan danced around two defenders to claim the decisive score for Joe Schmidt’s tourists against

Argentina.

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