{"id":118063,"date":"2025-11-02T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118063\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:24:09","slug":"tony-ward-all-blacks-defeat-shows-ireland-are-now-paying-price-for-providing-lions-backbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118063\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ward: All Blacks defeat shows Ireland are now paying price for providing Lions\u2019 backbone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's James Lowe in action against Beauden Barrett of New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f187328b-9479-4959-86e1-683ac6c1c743.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&#8217;s James Lowe in action against Beauden Barrett of New Zealand 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)\">Sometimes in sport, as in life, you get what you deserve and at the Soldier Field on Saturday Andy Farrell\u2019s side did just that. For anyone to suggest anything otherwise is deluding themselves to reality.<\/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)\">While I hate the much-used expression \u2018fail to prepare, prepare to fail,\u2019 our opening match of the Autumn series on  Saturday in Chicago was that to a tee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s James Lowe in action against Beauden Barrett of New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago. Photo: Ramsey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,50534],"class_list":["post-118063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tony-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118063","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=118063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}