Selfless Leinster flanker Fardy has become the model import

Run the rule over the best imports to have featured for the provinces down the years and it makes for a diverse cast of characters. Some arrived with the world-class tag long since bestowed on them. Others have made landfall here with less expectation on their shoulders but left with reputations enhanced.

No area of the pitch has been left untouched by these hired hands and maybe the one attribute that has linked them all is an absence of grandeur and work ethic that allows them to blend into a locker room of locals. Scott Fardy is of that mould.