{"id":143324,"date":"2025-11-16T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143324\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:17:09","slug":"tony-ward-encouraging-signs-for-ireland-but-storm-rassie-will-be-in-a-different-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143324\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ward: Encouraging signs for Ireland but Storm Rassie will be in a different category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryan Baird of Ireland is tackled by Harry Potter of Australia. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6b205f83-2886-4e68-9012-542044f4418f.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)\">Ryan Baird of Ireland is tackled by Harry Potter of Australia. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/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)\">By any standard, this was a great win with a memorable team performance from Ireland. In the end, we didn\u2019t just beat the Wallabies, we beat them by a record winning margin.<\/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)\">In mitigation, Joe Schmidt\u2019s charges were awful and Joe himself was clutching at straws when claiming the final points difference was \u201cexaggerated somewhat\u201d. Andy Farrell\u2019s team, by contrast, were at their best this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Baird of Ireland is tackled by Harry Potter of Australia. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile By any standard, this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,73536,61,60,43,50534],"class_list":["post-143324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-autumn-internationals","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tony-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143324","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=143324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}