Scott Fardy: The time is right to walk away

'I didn’t want to get to a point where I just completely destroyed the body and the game is getting more and more physical'

Scott Fardy during Leinster Rugby squad training at UCD in Dublin. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Scott Fardy will walk away from the game he played with distinction tomorrow night satisfied the time is right and happy to still have a body fit enough to play a round of golf should he choose.

The Australian forward, 37 in three weeks, brings down the curtain on a career that saw him win 39 Wallabies caps and play in the 2015 World Cup final with an 80th and final appearance for Leinster, with whom he won the Heineken Champions Cup in 2018 and four successive Guinness PRO14 titles.