Johnny Sexton: ‘You always feel you’ve got a point to prove’

LOCKED IN: Johnny Sexton is happy to see competition for places in the Ireland set-up. ‘That is going to spur us on, that is going to make us better,’ he says. Picture: Inpho/Billy Stickland

The feeling of having failed to play to his potential, individually and as a team, has nagged at Ireland captain Johnny Sexton since the Six Nations title was lost in Paris on October 31.

And it will drive the Ireland team in their attempt to make an immediate rebound when the Autumn Nations Cup kicks off against Wales in Dublin on Friday night.