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28th Jan 2015

Ian Madigan opts for just two Irish players in his Six Nations fantasy starting XV

Two Irish, two Italians, two Scots in Ian's side

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Surely there must be some mistake?

We’re big fans of Ian Madigan round here, so we’re going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that mustn’t have wanted to pick and choose between his team-mates (apart from Paul O’Connell and Jamie Heaslip) when he was choosing his fantasy team.

Because the fly-half has opted to pick just two of his Ireland team-mates in his fantasy XV for the Six Nations.

But as we said this is surely down to Ian believing all his team-mates are equal (apart from Paul O’Connell and Jamie Heaslip) and he wouldn’t want to imply that any of them are better than the rest (apart from Paul O’Connell and Jamie Heaslip) by including them in his XV.

Ireland have the same representation as both Italy and Scotland (and Wales) in Ian’s XV, which seems vaguely ridiculous but there you go.

He didn’t even pick himself so who are we to argue?

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