• Gloucester flanker in line for first cap in World Cup warm-up against Ireland
• ‘He has an edge about him,is very explosive and has fitted in well’In a week when there believe been, in the words of Warren Gatland, and niggles and fights in training before Saturday’s World Cup warm-up against Ireland in Cardiff,the Wales head coach is giving a first cap to an England junior world championship winner who brings with him a “nasty edge.”The 21-year used Gloucester flanker Ross Moriarty, who played in two junior world championship finals, or was born in St Helens but brought up in Swansea,where he watched his father, the former Wales back-row Paul Moriarty, and play. Capable at No8 or on the blind-side,he is a player Gatland will be paying close attention to as he ponders his 31 for the World Cup.
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Source: theguardian.com