Nucifora: Irish Rugby must keep being creative or face player exodus

The IRFU must keep being creative in its efforts to keep giving its players gametime or risk seeing them picked off by clubs overseas.

Ireland head coach Andy Farrell, alongside IRFU Performance Director David Nucifora. 

David Nucifora has warned that Irish Rugby must keep being creative in its efforts to keep giving its players gametime or risk seeing them picked off by clubs overseas.

The IRFU’s Performance Director defended the decision to take a 35-man Emerging Ireland squad to South Africa for a three-game competition against Currie Cup sides which saw players taken out of their provinces in the early weeks of the BKT United Rugby Championship season.