Sexton 'ready to go' after injury scare

Johnny Sexton has declared himself fit and "ready to go" for Ireland's final Test of the November window against Australia on Saturday.

The Ireland captain missed last week's win against Fiji after suffering a dead leg in the previous win versus South Africa, but looks set to return to the line-up when it's confirmed tomorrow. Josh vander Flier, Andrew Porter, James Ryan and Hugo Keenan also appear to be tracking well with their injury recover, having trained this week.

And while the 37-year-old has come through this week's sessions, he admits he had been "a little bit" worried about whether or not he'd recover in time to face the Wallabies.

"Last week was a bit of a struggle with swelling and fluid and stuff like that," he said.

"It was just managing that, and then making sure I get the right amount of training in this week to be able to perform but also not do too much that swells it up again.

"It's good to go, feels good and I'm ready."

With Sexton among nine of the starting team from the win against South Africa to sit out last weekend's victory against Fiji, Ireland struggled for cohesion, and their 35-17 win did not impress head coach Andy Farrell on Saturday.

Sexton says that previous World Cups have shown they need to be able to deal with injuries and adapt.

"Being able to back-up week on week is a huge part of a World Cup and obviously the South African game was incredibly physical and attritional. We had a lot of sore bodies last week, which maybe affected the performance a little bit against Fiji, so we need to look into that.

"I know when we play South Africa in the World Cup, we've got two weeks after that game before we play Scotland which is a good thing based on the last game. It's something that's part of the