ROG RECKONS SEXTON IS CERTAIN TO LEAD TEAM

which is important, it’s a traditional match week. “It’s probably a different decision if he’s not your captain, but Andy Farrell has made him his captain – so he is your leader, the guy you backed.

“He isn’t in control of the HIA. “He got a knee to the head

and he felt it at that time but, from what I am reading or saw after the game, he seems to be good.

“He did the press conference and all systems point to him being ready to train when everyone else is ready to train.”

If Sexton doesn’t make it for Sunday’s game, Andy Farrell will have to decide to go with Billy

Burns – who missed a vital kick to touch to deny Ireland a match-winning try chance – or Ross Byrne, who didn’t make the bench last weekend.

Meanwhile, Peter O’mahony (left) is likely to go before a disciplinary hearing tomorrow after he was red carded in the 13th minute and he could pick up a two-game ban.

TOMMY WRIGHT has the long-term Kilmarnock aim of repeating Steve Clarke’s magic trick and packing out Rugby Park.

The Northern Irishman has inked a two-and-half year contract and immediately set about saving the club’s top-flight skin.

Wright starts against Motherwell tomorrow with the team just four points off bottom.

The 57-year-old is adamant he has no fears about that challenge facing him in the short term.

And, looking further ahead, Wright, who won a Scottish Cup at St Johnstone, has ambitions of hauling Killie back up the league and filling the stadium.

Ex-boss Clarke left for the Scotland job insisting it was his trophy to walk away in front of three full stands of home supporters at his final game against Rangers.

Wright feels those days can return as he explained: “First and foremost, we have got to make sure we get enough points to move us up the table. That’s our short term aim.

“But we have spoken about the success the club has had in recent years and how the people of Kilmarnock really turned out.

“You look at the size of the club and what can be achieved.

“That’s something that, when I spoke to Billy [Bowie] and James [Fowler], I said if I can replicate the success we had at St Johnstone we are going to fill three sides of this place [Rugby Park] because it really is a big club.

“It’s a club with a support that, if the team is really going well, they fill the place out.”