VMTV Rugby Pod | Fiona Hayes and Jenny Murphy chat with Stuart McAvoy before Round four

I, J- yeah, I just think the Niamh Gallagher thing is, is brilliant, lads, because-

Mm-hmm

... um, in reality, for a while we've been talking about, like, we know there's fullbacks in the country, but we haven't seen very many, bar Stacey Flood.

Um, I think maybe Enya might've gone in there once.

Uh, Maeve Daly wasn't used in the World Cup.

She's now not on the squad.

Um, Aoife Corry was another player that came in and, and, and wasn't used as well.

So I've been watching Niamh Gallagher a f- a couple of times over playing with Trailfinders, um, in Ealing, and quite young.

I know all the kids that I've coached have been chatting about her at underage, saying she's unbelievable.

But for her to take a step up in the Prem, and Ealing, I think should be, are in the, the, the semifinals now.

Um, she's also got...

I watched her in two matches where she won player of the game in, in both matches, so there's a real talent there.

I think her boot is, is exceptional and just really elusive, um, footwork around that contact area.

Quite, as I said, quite young.

She was, she was playing last week against England in the 21s big win, um, so that was huge.

And the confidence, and on the back of that, she's probably just got called up.

And I think Scott as well said during the week that she's been training the house down, and obviously had to wait her turn.

Uh, so I'm, like, really excited to see her come on.

I think there needs to be competition at 15.

I think it just brings everyone on.

I think there needs to be more competition at 10.

Um-

Mm

... and then it's, it's that competition in the center that we're seeing.

So we saw Nancy come in and do h- start two games and do a really good job, and now it's, it's Eve's turn to try, and I suppose she wouldn't have been too happy with her performance against France, I think, so now she gets a start to come on and make an impression there.