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Tommy Bowe, left, and Johnny Sexton pictured at ANZ Stadium, Sydney, after the Lions defeated the Wallabies 2-1 in the Test Series. (Credit: Stephen McCarthy/SPORTSFILE)[/caption]
"You had Tampa Bay Buccaneers bringing in the likes of Tom Brady. They were a nothing team until Brady came in, seemed to galvanise and just didn't accept lower standards. "I was reading a story about Jonny Wilkinson, when he went to Toulon. They had long been this team of superstars but they couldn't get their shit together, to come together as a team and take on the best. Wilkinson came in with this relentless attitude and drove the standards. "And Johnny, at the age of 37, is that elder statesman and his body seems to be hanging together. He just seems to drive this Ireland team to a whole new level, and I think that is being encouraged more and more by Andy Farrell. He's got a huge say in everything that is going on. And Pete O'Mahony, likewise. Pete is probably playing some of the best rugby I've seen him play in years.""Whatever they are doing in training seems to be keeping these guys fresh and they are bringing out their best on weekends," says Bowe, "and long may it continue. "That, of course, is the worry. Anyone that watches any game with this Irish team, there is that worry were Johnny gets injured, Tadhg Furlong gets injured or Andrew Porter gets injured. They are the key positions. That's something they'll have to look at again, in the coming months." Ireland have three November Tests, in Dublin, ahead of the 2023 Six Nations and, most likely, four World Cup warm-ups before that tournament in France commences.
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