The last thing Andy Farrell needs are doubts about whether Six Nations games will be impacted by Covid-19 because the Irish coach has enough uncertainty about himself and his squad to deal with just now.
It’s just over a year since he took over from Joe Schmidt after a disastrous World Cup campaign in Japan and, while this is the third Six Nations squad he has announced, in many ways it still feels like his first as the progress expected last year just did not happen in such a truncated season.
Farrell and Ireland could badly do with an uninterrupted string of games, not least as he has ple...