Chris Farrell is from Fivemiletown, a village in south Tyrone and a short distance from the border with Fermanagh, he played centre half for a local team.<\/p>\n
Bernard Jackman has tipped Grenoble\u2019s former Ulster centre Chris Farrell as a dark horse for Joe Schmidt\u2019s Ireland World Cup squad. Chris Farrell is from Fivemiletown, a village in south Tyrone and a short distance from the border with Fermanagh, he played centre half for a local team. Bernard Jackman has tipped Grenoble\u2019s former Ulster centre Chris Farrell as a dark horse for Joe Schmidt\u2019s Ireland World Cup squad. Jackman, Farrell\u2019s head coach at Grenoble, has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6966,8321,5967,15911,5245,15912],"class_list":["post-79970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-chris","tag-farrell","tag-irish","tag-jackman","tag-squad","tag-wc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79972,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79970\/revisions\/79972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJackman, Farrell\u2019s head coach at Grenoble, has been impressed with the progress of the powerhouse centre, who joined the French side at the end of last season.
\n\u201cHe got here and everybody has been really unbelievably impressed with him in terms of what a good athlete he is,\u201d the former Ireland hooker said on the RT\u00c9 Rugby Podcast.
\n\u201cWe went to Argentina for a pre-season tour and he got a little stress fracture in his foot, which set him back about five weeks.
\n\u201cHe played against Oyonnax two weeks ago, which was his first game – first real game in probably two years \u2013 and he did well enough to start against Racing. And he got a great try [against Racing]; he ran a very good line.
\n\u201cFor me, it was the stuff outside of that try: his passing, for a big, physical centre, his range of passing and his decision-making on the ball is phenomenal……… see the full story on :- http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/chris-farrell-launches-his-climb-back-to-the-top-at-foot-of-the-alps-1.1948222<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"