Andy Farrell the right man with the right stuff when Ireland needed him via IrishTimesSport
Ireland captain Johnny Sexton with head coach Andy Farrell at the Aviva Stadium on St Patrick's Day. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images
The Farrell regime is self-evidently different. The standards are still high but he wants the players to explore their own route to reaching them. Everything the Ireland players tell you now about life under him is flavoured by the authority he gives them. He wants them to be themselves, not a version of themselves that they project to impress him.
Farrell’s authority goes hand in hand with his empathy. He has this verbal tic whereby he’ll take a question in a press huddle and somewhere in the course of his answer, he’ll throw it back to the gaggle if he’s looking for affirmation. “They went for it, didn’t they?” was his verdict on Ireland’s third-quarter domination of the Scots last week.
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