BEST INDIVIDUAL performance of the international year to date? Give me some time to mull it over. France won the Grand Slam and have the World Player of the Year in Antoine Dupont, but he hasn’t been as good in this calendar year as the last one. Key players produced key performances but something dazzling, unforgettable?
For that it makes sense to cast the mind back to the international calendar’s most memorable series. And there’s little doubt that Ireland’s first series win in New Zealand tops the charts. There’s the consistent excellence of Josh van der Flier. He’s a contender for the best openside in the world right now. And then there’s Tadhg. Everyone likes a charismatic prop. The quiet man is relentless at his best, but was Furlong quite at his best this year? Ah, those niggles…
What about the other Tadhg? The one Leinster let go all those years ago. The one who went to West Wales and found himself
