World Cup campaign not put to bed just yet at Leinster

Assistant coach Andrew Goodman is back in Dublin after his secondment to the Samoan squad.

BACK IN THE BUILDING: Backs coach Andrew Goodman during Leinster Rugby media conference at UCD in Dublin. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Leinster’s Ireland contingent is still weeks away from a competitive return but other ripples from the Rugby World Cup, which finishes on Saturday with a final pairing of New Zealand and South Africa, are noticeable around their Dublin base of operations.

Assistant coach Andrew Goodman is already back in the building after his secondment to a Samoan squad that prepared for the tournament back home in the Pacific, scared the life out of Ireland in Bayonne and then had a mixed bag of it in Pool D.