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Mon 11 Nov 2009All things considered, as good as it could get
Ireland 41 Fiji 6:THE HUNGER is palpable and, more than ever, you sense Ireland truly are a squad. Allowing for one or two caveats, this was as impressive a statement about the carefully and cleverly-managed squad system as Ireland could have managed in the circumstances.
The positives outnumbered the negatives. Among the 27 players used over the two autumn games to date, 23 of whom started, there were another three debutants at Test level here.
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