The Ireland head coach will have to cut five more players from his group.
With five players released from Ireland camp, Andy Farrell has reduced the options for the make-up of his final 33-man World Cup squad. He has added one new face in the form of loosehead prop Jeremy Loughman, but Farrell has begun the process of whittling his group down.
Farrell won’t bring four loosehead props either and it appears that Loughman is vying with Munster team-mate Dave Kilcoyne for the third spot alongside Andrew Porter and Cian Healy. However, if Ireland decide to go for an 18/15 split, as other nations have done, then it seems the relatively inexperienced Prendergast and McCarthy are most in danger.
Those considered to be truly vying for the final spots are Frawley, Stuart McCloskey, Keith Earls, and Jacob Stockdale. Aki and Henshaw might be enough for Farrell at 12, while Henshaw and the versatile Jimmy O’Brien cover 13. That said, the midfield slots have proven to be attritional in recent years and Farrell has sometimes picked a centre as his number 23, so he might want an extra body in this department.
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