Young Blood - The Select Group
The Select Group is the strategy the IRFU are using to prepare players for international rugby in an environment of excellence alongside their provincial structures. Ensuring all the players realise their full potentional.The PwC High Performance Select Group has been selected by the IRFU High Performance Manager Allen Clarke with input from national coach Eddie O’Sullivan and consultation with each of the Provincial Directors of Rugby.
Players will move in and out of the group depending on performance, injury and succession into the national team.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers High Performance Select Group
Leinster
Luke Fitzgerald*, Cian Healy, Jamie Heaslip*, Trevor Hogan*, Robert Kearney*, Jonathan Sexton
Connacht
Daniel Riordan*, Gavin Duffy
Munster
Tony Buckley, Donnacha Ryan, Denis Hurley
Ulster
Tommy Bowe*, Ryan Caldwell, Stephen Ferris*, David Pollock, Bryan Young*
*Indicates second year as part of PwC HPSG
Players moving out of PwC HPSG: Ronnie McCormack, Kieran Lewis, Barry Murphy.