Ireland fly-half Joey Carbery has declared himself fully fit before Saturdays Pool A decider.
Despite carrying a foot injury carbery, who also plays his club rugby for Munster, was brought and states he is ready to repay the faith shown in him by the Ireland coaching team.
Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt backed him to shake off the shoulder ligament problem he suffered in Augusts 29-10 victory over Italy in Dublin and desired Carbery within his squad – despite fears that he could overlook the entire tournament.
Then, although the 23-year-old came from the bench to the host nation, Japan from the 19-12 loss aggravated his dilemma and was a late withdrawal against the win over Russia.
But Carbery has received atremendous confidence boost ahead of Saturdays game, he says, after coaching entirely and without impediment on Tuesday.
Hopefully I am 100 per cent now, it has been a very frustrating year with injuries, explained Carbery.
But Im fully back today and return back to myself because I was. I guess I will just get back out there and do exactly what Ive been performing.
I suppose with the timing of the injury before we left Japan, along with the nature of it too, it was always likely to be a tiny frustration.
But to be fair I was lucky enough to be contemplated and I did get on the plane.
The coaches showed a lot of faith in me and I am very grateful for it. I would like to repay that faith now. I need to go out and perform the job and show them that they were not wrong; thats certainly in the back of my head
