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Published 13:06 21 Jun 2018 BST
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"When you have that juggernaut coming at that pace, he's not stopping. The thing is, it is perfectly timed."McLaughlin was at Leinster around the time the Wexford native was just breaking into the senior side, in 2013, just before he turned 20. On Furlong's durability and character, McLaughlin commented:
"It's a great luxury for a coach to have - to say, 'This tight-head can keep trucking for me, and he can actually play the 80 if I wanted him to'. "I remember when he was a kid... when I was finishing up, he was just coming through with Leinster and he played a couple of games. I remember doing a couple of circuits, in training, with him. "He is one of those guys. He was never in amazing shape or anything but he's keep trucking and you'd be like, 'Jesus Christ! He has got some engine on him'. "You could see he was blowing and you could see he was bollixed but he'd just keep going. You could see that on the pitch [in Brisbane]. He doesn't stop trucking. "And his ability to play a bit of heads up rugby... he could see there was a gap on the short side, there, for his try and he could see that it was [Australia scrum-half] Nick Phipps. He thought, 'I can get the ball and I can steam-roll this guy'."Steam-roll he certainly did. That was Furlong's first Test try but we suspect there are plenty more to come.
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