Toner’s last Ireland appearance came in 2020 and he retired two years later after 16 years of service with Leinster.<\/p>\n
While he admits he “doesn’t want a lot of rugby” since hanging up his boots, he still supports Ireland.<\/p>\n
He believes Andy Farrell’s side are in a good place but believes “someone needs to nail down the line-out call”.<\/p>\n
He says Tadhg Beirne is a “phenomenal player” but players being moved between the second row and the back row impacts a line-out specialist. <\/p>\n
“Tadhg is a phenomenal player, but I don’t know if I would have him up there as one of the best callers in the game,” Toner said.<\/p>\n
“But at the same time I don’t think anyone has stepped forward.<\/p>\n
“There’s different roles and different positions. Because they are all interchangeable. It’s the same with Ryan Baird, who can play six.”<\/p>\n
Toner added the talent coming through for Ireland in the second row is “huge”.<\/p>\n
“Edwin Edogbo is there and Tom Ahern, if he can get a run of games, I think he is a very good line-out caller and he’s six foot nine.<\/p>\n
“There’s a good few lads coming through, and it’s good to see Joe McCarthy coming back from injury because I think they missed him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toner’s last Ireland appearance came in 2020 and he retired two years later after 16 years of service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-337904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}