{"id":155955,"date":"2025-11-23T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155955\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:39:10","slug":"cian-traceys-breakdown-poor-discipline-is-at-the-heart-of-this-ireland-teams-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155955\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey\u2019s Breakdown: Poor discipline is at the heart of this Ireland team\u2019s downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's James Ryan (left) makes an illegal clear-out on South Africa's Malcolm Marx. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/493032d8-4c3b-4155-b587-e4fe5b08257e.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 Ryan (left) makes an illegal clear-out on South Africa&#8217;s Malcolm Marx. 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)\">When a team concede a whopping 18 penalties, and the majority stem from the scrum, the obvious thing to do is pin the disciplinary issues entirely on the faltering set-piece. Yet to do so in this instance would gloss over the fact that Ireland\u2019s problems on Saturday night were caused by committing an array of offences.<\/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)\">South Africa\u2019s brutal demolition of the Irish scrum was a sight to behold \u2013 the scars of which threaten to linger for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s James Ryan (left) makes an illegal clear-out on South Africa&#8217;s Malcolm Marx. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile When a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-155955","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\/155955","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=155955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}