{"id":112783,"date":"2025-10-30T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112783\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:52:11","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-andy-farrell-backing-form-and-freshness-to-flip-narrative-around-his-ireland-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112783\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Andy Farrell backing form and freshness to flip narrative around his Ireland team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has opted for the in-form Jack Crowley at No 10 for Saturday's match against the All Blacks at Soldier Field in Chicago. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3273928.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has opted for the in-form Jack Crowley at No 10 for Saturday&#8217;s match against the All Blacks at Soldier Field in Chicago. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This clash with the All Blacks is coming so early in the season that it\u2019s hard to get a gauge on player form, but there\u2019s a freshness to the team Andy Farrell picked that suggests he\u2019s learnt lessons from last season\u2019s defeat in the same fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Seven of his starting pack were Lions last summer, six of them took part in the Test series, and while there\u2019s a worry over their lack of game-time, there\u2019s a lot of experience and class up front to bridge the gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has opted for the in-form Jack Crowley at No 10 for Saturday&#8217;s match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,4174,43771,43,12918],"class_list":["post-112783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-jack-crowley","tag-news","tag-sam-prendergast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}