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8th November 2021
05:04pm GMT

Jonathan Sexton of Ireland acknowledges supporters at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. (Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile)[/caption]
"You have lads like Iain Henderson, Peter O'Mahony, Cian Healy and Keith Earls there. "They could all do a job, but the one change you might see is that Conor Murray might come in at No.9, which is hard on Jamison [Gibson-Park] as he played so well."Toner started the big Ireland wins over the All Blacks, in 2016 and 2018, and was sorely missed in 2019 when the Kiwis put on an exhibition in the World Cup quarter final. Nailing the set-piece, cutting errors to a bare minimum and playing to your strengths are all needed, he believes, to down New Zealand. That is what makes him think Murray could get in at scrumhalf ahead of Gibson-Park. "Sometimes it helps a team, but it comes to the detriment of certain players when they're great off the bench," says Toner. "He's done phenomenal work for us for Leinster. When it's between him and Luke McGrath, whichever comes off the bench really does bring that extra bit of something. He could do that again, at the 55- or 60-minute mark." [caption id="attachment_240334" align="aligncenter" width="518"]
Jamison Gibson-Park of Ireland pictured during a match against Japan at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. (Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile)[/caption]
When it comes to the rest of the XV that started against Japan, and helped Ireland to a comprehensive 60-5 win, the Leinster lock feels Andy Farrell won't make too many changes.
He believes it would be "unfair" to drop either Andrew Conway or James Lowe after the wingers combined for over 180-metres gained and four tries against the Japanese.
To our mind, though, the big calls will be at loosehead [Cian Healy or Andrew Porter], hooker [Ronán Kelleher or Rob Herring] and on the wings.
We're going against Toner on the Gibson-Park call, and keeping Murray in reserve. In the front row, we are going for the younger models, with one eye on the next World Cup. And we're bringing in Jordan Larmour in place of Lowe, even though the latter did do very well against Japan.
15. Hugo Keenan 14. Andrew Conway 13. Garry Ringrose 12. Bundee Aki 11. Jordan Larmour 10. Johnny Sexton 9. Jamison Gibson-Park 1. Andrew Porter 2. Ronán Kelleher 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. Tadhg Beirne 5. James Ryan 6. Caelan Doris 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Jack ConanSubs: Rob Herring, Cian Healy, Finlay Bealham, Iain Henderson, Peter O'Mahony, Conor Murray, Joey Carbery, Keith Earls. Andy Farrell will name his Ireland team to face New Zealand on Thursday afternoon.
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