Ireland: Stuart McCloskey stresses importance of team performances as squad announcement looms
Ireland centre Stuart McCloskey has stressed the importance of strong team performances during warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup.
Head coach Andy Farrell will reduce his current 42-man squad to 33 later this summer for the tournament in France. The two-time Ulster player of the year, alongside club-mates Tom Stewart and Iain Henderson, put in a solid audition for coach Farrell's World Cup squad decisions against the Azzurri. "He's been class for Ulster ever since he started and I know he'll have a great international career and this is just the start of it."The encounter with Italy was the first of three World Cup warm-up games, with meetings with England and Samoa to come later this month.
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