Rúaidhrí O’Connor: Ireland's No 10 situation a result of lack of long term planning as battle comes to a head at Croke Park

Jack Crowley and Sam Prendergast of Ireland will go head to head at Croke Park this Saturday. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Sam Prendergast and Jack Crowley have been on the same pitch as one another many times at this stage, but at Croke Park on Saturday they’ll finally play against each other for the first time.

It is a strange quirk of this headline-grabbing rivalry that we have never seen the two most talked about players in Irish rugby go head to head.

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