Declan Kidney feeling full of beans

Published on Saturday 21 November 2009 00:16

IRELAND coach Declan Kidney continues to take an upbeat view of today's international against Fiji at the RDS in Dublin despite an horrific weather forecast of wind and rain.

Most importantly, Ireland report no late injury worries and the pitch at the RDS was perfect as they underwent their final training session today.

Kidney said: "The pitch is in excellent condition, so a huge amount of credit must go to everyone who has been looking after it.

"Hopefully, the weather won't be too bad because that will be difficult to overcome. But, if the weather is very bad, there is nothing any of us can do about it.

"It will be the same for both teams, we will just have to work our way through it, and play what is in front of us."

Predictably, the Ireland coach refuses to play down the Fiji challenge, emphasising that they reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

He continued: "I thought Scotland played quite well against them last week and Fiji didn't make it easy."