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Tue 06 Jun 2010Backs to the wall as absentee list grows
AT THE last count, of the 36 players to have played for Ireland in nine Tests in the 2009-10 season, 13 have been ruled out of the season finale against the Wallabies at the Suncorp Stadium here this Saturday (kick-off 8pm local time, 11am Irish). With David Wallace flying home to be with is wife, Aileen, for the birth of their second child, seven of them are backrowers.
While there’s no accounting for the latter development, or the suspension of Jamie Heaslip, if nothing else one ventures this season and this tour has been a reminder to the Irish coaching staff that the attrition rate is often highest among the loose forwards.
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