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Published 09:20 23 Dec 2015 GMT
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And it seems Munster's offer fell short of what the 32 year old was looking for because Nucifora was not willing to contribute any IRFU central funds for an aging star who was not going to give up playing Test rugby and would deny a young native player like Niall Scannell playing time.
“Munster came to us with Stephen and said ‘this is what we’d like to put forward’. There’s a whole range of things that we think about that go into these decisions. "So having a player that’s still eligible to play international rugby that’s going to cost a province a lot of money, is that the best use of the funds available at that point in time, where he’s going to be missing for a large portion of the season? Probably not," explained Nucifora. “It’d be nice to have him but it’d be nice to have him for the whole year. The fact that people have said that we blocked it, it wasn’t blocked. I think you’ll find that there probably was an offer made to Stephen Moore. It just wasn’t accepted.”It is not just imports that interest the Australian administrator, but also exports. With Ian Madigan contemplating leaving Leinster for Bordeaux or possibly the Premiership, Nucifora admits the fly-half would be at a "disadvantage" in terms of selection by Joe Schmidt.
“If Ian decided to go and he played 10 every week. We wouldn’t ignore him, we don’t ignore any of the players that might be overseas. We watch them all very carefully. Does it mean that he is at disadvantage behind the boys playing in Ireland? Yes, it does.”
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