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23rd September 2019
03:27pm BST

Jordan Larmour, playing in his 17th Ireland outing, was excellent in attack as he ran the ball back 11 times for a gain of 78 metres, while making two clean breaks.
Players often say the jersey they are wearing on match-day is not their own. They are merely borrowing it and hoping to do it justice. On Sunday, Andrew Conway and Jordan Larmour did jersey numbers 14 and 15 proud.
His biggest blip was throwing away possession in a frantic opening five minutes but, as well as the defensive tackles he stuck, and got his side a turnover back, on 29 minutes, when he dipped in to latch onto the ball after he and Josh van der Flier had taken down Sean Maitland.
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"Larmour went well," says Andrew Trimble. "Scotland did try to go after him but I don't think they were structured about it and went about it correctly. They didn't isolate him."
Looking ahead to the Japan game, Barry Murphy wonders if both Keith Earls and Rob Kearney would be able to displace Larmour and Andrew Conway, who scored Ireland's bonus point try. Jerry Flannery comments:
"It's not that Jordan hadn't delivered on a Test stage at 15. It was just that there were question marks. People didn't know. And I thought he played really well. I though Conway played really well, as well. "So, when the second tier lads that probably aren't considered bolt-on starters by Joe, when they're starting to play really well, it bodes well. It starts pushing performance all the time. So Rob and Earlsy, when they come in, will be under the pump to play well. "It's the same as, I think, if you look at how well Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell and Andrew Porter have been playing well. I thought the Irish front row had a really big performance. They were really, really effective."Schmidt may be loathe to switch around his back three after they delivered so impressively against the beleaguered Scots. Between them, the Irish back three provided:
Trimble feels Earls may stand a better shout than Kearney for getting back into the XV for the weekend but he would not be surprised if, due to the six-day turnaround, if changes are minimal.
"They'll not make any changes," says Trimble, "apart from the guys (Chris Farrell and Jack Conan) that have come in there, will they, because it's a tight turnaround."
After the Wales victory, Kearney was Ireland's fullback for the big World Cup games.
He may yet get back in for Japan but in a backline coping with injuries and fitness issues, Schmidt must be delighted to have a positive selection dilemma on his hands.
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