{"id":135290,"date":"2025-11-12T05:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:44:12","slug":"cian-tracey-the-ireland-attack-is-struggling-to-strike-the-right-balance-between-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135290\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: The Ireland attack is struggling to strike the right balance between past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"As a Kiwi who wants to play heads-up rugby, Andrew Goodman has concerns over the amount of kicking in the game. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3286673.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)\">As a Kiwi who wants to play heads-up rugby, Andrew Goodman has concerns over the amount of kicking in the game. Photo: 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)\">Over the last few weeks, listening to the Ireland players and coaches outlining why they are confident that the game-plan is very close to coming together, we have been reminded of a similar scenario shortly after Andy Farrell took over as head coach in 2020.<\/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)\">Back then, the early evidence didn\u2019t appear to bode well, and with pressure ramping up on the then backs coach Mike Catt, suddenly everything clicked and what the players had been preaching publicly came to pass. That\u2019s why it\u2019s too early to write off this team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a Kiwi who wants to play heads-up rugby, Andrew Goodman has concerns over the amount of kicking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-135290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135290","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=135290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}