Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan has appealed to the fringe members of his squad to make life more difficult for him and the selectors.

O'Sullivan saw his first-choice players produce a fabulous 18-9 victory over world champions Australia at Lansdowne Road last Saturday.

But he wants his less experienced players to show their potential and make future team selections more of a headache.

Nine changes from the team which beat the Wallabies for the clash with Fiji indicate that O'Sullivan wants those players to step up to the plate this
Sunday.

O'Sullivan said: "Some of them don't get many opportunities so this game will be a big day for them. Hopefully they will manage to put a bit of pressure on us, the selectors and
make us work harder to come to decisions. That, to me, is the ideal situation to be in.

"We always said we had to make the best use of these three autumn
internationals. We want to give our fringe players some game time, give them a bit of experience and see how they go."

The selectors have made changes throughout the team with Leicester's Geordan Murphy coming in at full-back for Girvan Dempsey, Justin Bishop of London Irish returning at left wing and a new half-back pairing of David Humphreys and Guy Easterby standing in for Munster duo Ronan O'Gara and Peter Stringer.

In the pack, Marcus Horan comes in for Reggie Corrigan at prop while hooker
Shane Byrne makes way for Frank Sheahan and Leo Cullen resumes his Leinster second row partnership with Malcolm O'Kelly instead of Ulster's Gary Longwell.

And there are new wing forwards with Alan Quinlan and Kieron Dawson joining
number eight Anthony Foley in the Irish back row.

O'Sullivan believes it is a well-earned rest for many of last weekend's
Wallaby bashers, especially with another tough assignment against Argentina coming up the weekend after the Fiji game.

He said: "It is a big ask to play three games of such importance in quick
succession but it should be good for us. We go to Australia for the World Cup and will have to play at least four times in four weeks.

"We have been trying to protect players from burn-out, although this country is better than some others. I don't expect any of our top players to have made more than 14 representative appearances before Christmas."