Dan Sheehan at no8 for Leinster: Top analysts wonder whether this is an Andy Farrell request

"I'd say Jacques Nienaber had a say in it, Andy Farrell may also have made a call on it. We don't have the luxury in the depth chart that France and South Africa have in the back row."

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