Ireland lost the game, but Bent held up his end of the bargain after replacing Mike Ross for the closing 10 minutes. Many of those were off-Broadway affairs in the Guinness PRO14, but winning those games is a key part of Leinster’s success. “It is certainly frustrating that that start I had always pops up,” Bent says of his first week in Ireland. I’m still grateful for the opportunities to play for Ireland and I’d certainly like to have a few more caps to my name. “I certainly couldn’t have imagined that I would play this amount of times and this long for Leinster,” he said.

Source: Irish Independent June 04, 2021 01:40 UTC