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4th February 2019
10:53am GMT

"I think we didn't see him in his best light, no doubt about it," O'Gara said on Virgin Media Sport. "Had he played enough there? No, but I think once you've played him now you stick with him. It's so ruthless professional sport and at that level he got exposed in his positioning once or twice but then if you take him out what message does that send to him? "Maybe he features in the centre, which he could easily do, but of course there'll be calls for Rob Kearney to come back, he's been Ireland's best full-back for 10 years. "He consistently performs for Ireland, he just has to get his body right. He'll get himself a crack at probably training. "I'm not in camp but it seems like from the outside looking in that he probably hasn't presented himself fit to train consistently enough to feature in Joe's thoughts but maybe now he has a reassessment of what happened on Saturday and he might say 'okay I want to base my team with Rob at 15'."https://www.sportsjoe.ie/rugby/joe-schmidts-full-back-call-big-decision-campaign-192569
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