Bill Johnston: Knocking on the door at No. 10

As Bill Johnston looked around the Munster High Performance Centre at UL last summer, he’d have been forgiven for wondering ‘how am I ever going to get a game for Munster with so much out-half talent here?’

JJ Hanrahan, Tyler Bleyendaal and Ian Keatley were vastly more experienced out-halves and seemingly well ahead of him in the pecking order. Fast forward a couple of months and the much-heralded arrival of Joey Carbery was confirmed.