'I used to love going to the warm-ups of games. I used to love going early, and getting as close to the pitch as I could, to watch the kickers warming up. The stadium would almost be empty and I loved being there for it.'
Byrne joins us in the players' lounge, where the women's and sevens players usually hang out when at the HPC [there is a similar room for the senior men's squad over the other side of the building] and is wearing the new Ireland home jersey. He has a really strong chance of making that final squad but, for a player out of the Ireland set-up as recently as November 2022, one wonders how comfortable he is tempting fate like this.
Put to him that it would be understandable if all anyone ever stopped him in the street to talk about was rugby, he replies,"You kind of have to accept that this is our job. Wen you are in the Leinster and Ireland squads, people want to talk about that a lot. You just have to accept that. It's what comes when you play for these teams...
Ross has four years on his younger brother, Harry, but fondly recalls the pair of them out playing in their housing estate, growing up, whether it was rugby, GAA or a bit of football. There was a spot of golf, too, and he brightens up when he recalls heading to Dooks golf course, in Kerry, with friends when he was a teenager.
Byrne did not feature for Ireland in 2021/22 but got his chance when both Joey Carbery and Harry Byrne were injured and Johnny Sexton pulled up before a home game against Australia. Jack Crowley was drafted in to start - wearing Sexton's No.10 jersey - and Byrne was bench in an Irish match-day squad. As the game played out, Byrne came off the bench for the final quarter and. Farrell declared,"It's awesome for Ross Byrne...
Were Sexton to receive a playing ban, Andy Farrell would then be forced to plan for his World Cup warm-ups, and possibly the tournament itself, with only Ross Byrne and Jack Crowley in his squad, with Ciarán Frawley there as a goal-kicking fall-back. Next up, one would imagine, would be Joey Carbery and then Harry Byrne.
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