{"id":142045,"date":"2025-11-16T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142045\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:28:07","slug":"andy-farrell-praises-irelands-ability-to-go-again-after-australia-comeback-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142045\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell praises Ireland\u2019s ability to go again after Australia comeback \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second week in succession Andy Farrell<\/a> was asked whether he had elicited the required response from his team. This time the answer was in the affirmative. He was broadly pleased with a freewheeling Ireland<\/a> performance that yielded a 46-19 victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very pleasing to be sat in here with a score like that in those types of conditions against a side which would have been well up for this. It\u2019s pretty pleasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow we handled lots of bits throughout the game, especially with them coming back just before half-time and regathering ourselves and giving a performance like we did in the second half, I thought as far as field position and being across most of our game in that second half was really pleasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe start was pretty good. I thought we really let ourselves go and attacked the game straight from the word go. There were obviously some setbacks, discipline-wise or whatever, a dropped ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to happen in games like that, with them coming back into it, but holding our nerve and attacking the game again in the second half and keep playing the type of rugby that we did again in those conditions right until the end [was great]. I thought we gave a good account of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for conversation to alight on Mack Hansen, Ireland\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 fullback, hat-trick hero and the man who wore one black boot and one white boot in his inimitable fashion. Although that word seems incongruous.<\/p>\n

Farrell smiled: \u201cWell my first thoughts were, \u2018you better play well in those two different coloured boots!\u2019 He\u2019s drawn attention to himself before he\u2019s even started. I said to him before the game, \u2018good players don\u2019t need excuses, they can get on with it and just be themselves. You can get the man of the match if you want,\u2019 and he went, \u2018yeah, I agree.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s that type of player, he prepares well, he\u2019s got a great attitude to get across his detail, and so that\u2019s why he slotted straight back in, and he was able to be himself because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farrell also gave an update on the injuries. Stuart McCloskey, who had a fine game until his departure, suffered a recurrence of his groin issue, while Thomas Clarkson who went off for a HIA \u201cdid pass the test\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"IrelandIreland hooker R\u00f3nan Kelleher takes on the Australia defence at the Aviva Stadium. Photograph: Paul Faith\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

The Irish coach was asked about his two outhalves and corrected the misapprehension that it was just a straight contest between Sam Prendergast and Jack Crowley. \u201cIt\u2019s great, isn\u2019t it,?\u201d he said when asked about the ovation the crowd offered when they swapped roles.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, lads, I know you guys think it\u2019s a two-horse race, but Harry Byrne\u2019s not sitting down either. Ciar\u00e1n Frawley is not sitting down. Everyone is within a shout of being able to compete in the here and now and the not-too-distant future, and in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get these two having a go at one another and playing really well. They\u2019re actually good mates and good professionals with all that. We\u2019re interested in seeing everyone compete. Harry played pretty well in Spain. It isn\u2019t just the two lads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe Schmidt<\/a> was generous in his tribute to Ireland\u2019s ability to sustain pressure in the final quarter but lamented some chances that the Wallabies left behind. \u201cObviously today, I think with 20 minutes to go, we\u2019re down 22-14. We\u2019re still right in that game. I think when we had that five-metre lineout, we just couldn\u2019t quite get the execution and accuracy right.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was some good pressure from Ireland but at the same time, our execution wasn\u2019t good enough. It afforded them 70 per cent territory and position pretty much in that second half. They really controlled the flow of the game, and they controlled the space in behind and the aerial battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be 22-14 down and collapse like we did tonight. I think the yellow card certainly made things more difficult, especially if you\u2019re trying to overplay at that stage when you\u2019re a man down. There\u2019s always going to be a bit of space somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Ireland captain Caelan Doris, who wore the number seven jersey for the third time in his career, it proved something of a lucky number for Irish players this week with Troy Parrott scoring two goals in the Republic of Ireland soccer team\u2019s win over Portugal.<\/p>\n

Doris was a try scorer, his third incidentally in as many matches wearing that jersey. He said: \u201cI got one try and not two unfortunately, I told the lads that after his two goals I\u2019d get two tries, but that didn\u2019t come to fruition.\u201d <\/p>\n

It was about the only thing that Ireland failed to honour on a great night for the home side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second week in succession Andy Farrell was asked whether he had elicited the required response from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,53359,61,60,1449,42016,56672,43,53328],"class_list":["post-142045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-autumn-nations-series","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-joe-schmidt","tag-mack-hansen","tag-news","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142045","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=142045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}