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Brian O'Driscoll on Carbery dilemma: "If Joe Schmidt is saying, 'Go to Ulster', I'd be listening to him"

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09:04 2 May 2018


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Will he or won't he? The provincial future of Joey Carbery remains up in the air as the potential of a move away from Leinster to Ulster for game-time reasons still a possibility.

Brian O'Driscoll touched on the matter on OTB AM last week as he also examined Ulster's struggles. 

Brian O'Driscoll on Carbery dilemma: "If Joe Schmidt is saying, 'Go to Ulster', I'd be listening to him"

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But tonight at our Off The Ball Roadshow at the Mansion House with Heineken Rugby Club, the Ireland and Leinster legend suggested that a move away should be something Carbery takes up if Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt advises him to do so. 

"If he's going to be No 2 for Ireland as Joe Schmidt has clearly earmarked him, I think from that perspective, I'd be taking the advice of my Ireland coach and listening to what he said. And if [Schmidt] is saying, 'Go to Ulster', I'd be listening to him," he said. 

"Because, ultimately, yes you want to play for your province and you want to win trophies but you also want to win trophies on a bigger scale and this World Cup next year and other Six Nations, this Irish team are in a phenomenally good place. The last thing you'd want to do is rule yourself out of that '23 because you haven't got enough game-time and someone like Ross Byrne gets more of an opportunity."   


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