'No reason' for Johnny Sexton to stop after signing deal through to 2022

'When you get to a certain age, you just take it year by year, and if your body is telling you to carry on, then carry on'

'If you are at the top of the game and able to achieve the highest standards that you demand of yourself, there is no reason to stop playing,' Leinster forwards coach Robin McBryde said of Johnny Sexton

Johnny Sexton has been urged to play as long as he possibly can after signing a new one-year deal with Leinster and the IRFU that will take him up to the shores of his 37th birthday in the summer of 2022.

The veteran out-half hinted last week that he may not see out this 2023 World Cup cycle before rowing back on that possibility, and his performance against Italy in Rome last weekend would suggest that he is not finished just yet.