James Lowe understands that Leinster's returning Lions must hit ground running

Lowe and all bar one of Leinster’s other 13 Lions stayed behind in Dublin the last fortnight while the rest of the squad started the URC season with that shocking 35-0 loss against the Stormers and an eight-point defeat to the Bulls, both in South Africa.

RETURNING LIONS: James Lowe and the returning Leinster Lions must hit the ground running. Pic: ©INPHO/Nick Elliott

James Lowe tends to run over opponents rather than dance around them and the Leinster wing is just as direct when asked why he sat out the British and Irish Lions’ third Test this past summer.

“Faz dropped me. It is what it is, mate. Sometimes that’s how it happens.”