Conor Murray warns of threat from Tonga's ex-Munster star Malakai Fekitoa

The former All Black will be amongst the side out to upset Andy Farrell's side in Nantes.

FAMILIAR FACE: Malakai Fekitoa during the Tonga Captain’s Run at Stade de Beaujoire, Nantes. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Conor Murray has warned supporters looking forward to Ireland’s World Cup pool clash with Tonga tonight to expect a massive physical threat from former team-mate Malakai Fekitoa and his cohorts.

Ireland’s starting scrum-half played with the ex-All Black centre, who has joined Benetton for this season, at Munster in 2022-23 and credits the former Toulon and Wasps star with helping to ignite his province’s end-of-season run to the URC title. Yet Murray, who also played against Fekitoa for Ireland against New Zealand in 2016 and in a Champions Cup quarter-final at Thomond Park in 2018, knows what damage the repatriated Tongan centre and his team-mates can do.