Andy Friend will have Bundee Aki and Jack Carty available next week when Toulouse come to Galway. The problem is that Friend continues to lose healthy bodies as quickly as he welcomes others back. Three losses in their three festive interpro fixtures shows just how hard that attrition rate has hit them but Friend isn’t worried about the ‘wheels falling off’. "Leinster, Ulster, and Munster are very good football sides and I’d suggest Ulster and Leinster are probably the pick of the teams in the PRO14 at the moment. “At some stage we need to pin our colours to the mast and say we need to focus on the PRO14,” Friend said after his side’s 47-point loss to Leinster at the weekend.

Source: Irish Examiner January 06, 2020 05:26 UTC