Ken Early on how mistakes deliver spectacle and Ian O’Riordan lauds Rhys McClenaghan’s faultless World Championship triumph
Ireland coach Andy Farrell and captain Jonathan Sexton celebrate after their comfortable victory over Scotland secured a spot in the last eight. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
“Where will this beautiful thing end,” asks Gerry Thornley. Hopefully at the Stade de France on October 28th, but we can’t be losing the run of ourselves. Althoughpay tribute to him after the game“Crisis, what crisis,” he asks after seeing all 10 lineouts won Ireland’s adaptability caught John’s eye, not least the sight of Jamison Gibson-Park and Garry Ringrose “fulfilling new remits as wingers” when the need arose. Farrell, he writes, has always said that, that they need to find solutions rather than focus on problems. “His team did that on Saturday night.” Next? The small matter ofwill be fit for the game remains to be seen, “it’ll be the next 24-48 hours where we’ll get a good read on those guys,” said defence coach Simon Easterby.
Denis Walsh, meanwhile, was taking an exam on the laws of the game on the World Rugby website, but came to the conclusion that you don’t actually have to understand any of them to be “sucked in to the excitement”.: “the action on stage is conducted in a foreign language, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be gripped by the plot or entranced by the spectacle”.
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