{"id":106198,"date":"2025-10-07T04:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106198\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T04:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:12:13","slug":"jack-crowley-tuning-out-of-ireland-10-debate-to-put-full-focus-on-munster-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106198\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Crowley tuning out of Ireland 10 debate to put full focus on Munster \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A strong start to the season for Munster<\/a> outhalf Jack Crowley<\/a> has nothing to do with him trying to nail down the Ireland<\/a> number 10 jersey for the upcoming autumn internationals, his sole focus being to help his province hit the ground running in the URC.<\/p>\n

Crowley said it would be disingenuous to his team-mates if his motivation was an international target rather than concentrating on helping Munster build on their bright start under new head coach Clayton McMillan.<\/p>\n

Crowley has had a strong URC return, landing a decisive drop goal and picking up the Man of the Match award as Munster edged out Cardiff 23-20 at Thomond Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But the 25-year-old said his Ireland aspirations for the autumn are not a factor in his recent good form.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m being brutally honest, I don\u2019t think it would be respectful to the (Munster) group for that to be a driving factor for me. I don\u2019t think it would be fair to the rest of the lads.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy main focus is how I can best prepare the team and myself for the opponent that\u2019s coming up this week. This week it\u2019s Edinburgh, how we can best prepare for that and how we can get the best out of ourselves, how I can get the best out of myself? <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we start looking down the line then that\u2019s where we will be able to deliver in performances. I don\u2019t think it would be, for me anyway, placing my energy in the right areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JackJack Crowley during a Munster training session at University of Ireland on Monday. Photograph: Morgan Treacy\/Inpho <\/p>\n

Crowley landed his third drop goal for Munster to push their lead over Cardiff to 23-15 with four minutes left in last weekend\u2019s game, taking his haul for his native province to 350 points in 73 games. The risk paid dividends as a late try from the visitors saw Munster win with a three-point margin.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The drop goal) wasn\u2019t really anything we discussed, it was just the situation we were in,\u201d Crowley explained. \u201cWe didn\u2019t really have momentum in that passage of play and we\u2019ll try and look at it and see how we can be better in those scenarios to find a way back into our game. It was just a scenario that came about and we took it and were able to fight another day I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there was obvious satisfaction in claiming the score, he added the main thing was securing the win to back up their opening win away to Scarlets.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be fair to Cardiff, I thought they were unbelievably physical, put us under a lot of pressure and probably didn\u2019t allow us to play exactly the way we wanted to,\u201d said Crowley. \u201cUltimately, it led us to a bit more of a scrappy game and we got there in the end. I think there\u2019s more satisfying performances hopefully to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly as a collective we\u2019d hoped to be a little bit more physical. We didn\u2019t deliver to our own standards we felt in the game, so that is something as a group that we\u2019ll be driving and hopefully deliver on further down the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edinburgh, whose game against Ulster fell victim to Storm Amy, lost their opening round match when they were pipped at the post by Zebre in Parma.<\/p>\n

However, Crowley noted Edinburgh also lost to Zebre last season, a week before coming to Cork where they saw off Munster 34-28, so he\u2019s on his guard this time round.<\/p>\n

\"MunsterMunster attack coach Mike Prendergast. Photograph: Ben Brady\/Inpho <\/p>\n

In an injury update on Monday, attack coach Mike Prendergast said the extent of Craig Casey\u2019s hamstring injury should become more apparent this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s still doing a couple of tests on it. We\u2019re hoping that it won\u2019t be too long, hopefully in the next week or two and there\u2019ll probably be a bit more clarity towards the end of the week, maybe around Thursday or so. We\u2019re hoping to wait and see that we get a bit of good news there, but as of now, nothing is clear or set in stone in terms of availability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winger Shane Daly (HIA) and hooker Niall Scannell (hand laceration) will miss Friday\u2019s game but there were a lot of positives as seven players \u2013 Edwin Edogbo, Tom Farrell, Mike Haley, Mikey Milne, John Ryan, Roman Salanoa and Andrew Smith \u2013 are set to return to full training this week, with their availability to be determined next week.<\/p>\n

JJ Hanrahan\u2019s position will be decided on later this week as he continues to follow return-to-play protocols, while winger Diarmuid Kilgallen is increasing his training load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong start to the season for Munster outhalf Jack Crowley has nothing to do with him trying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12311,132,42271],"class_list":{"0":"post-106198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-rugby-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}