{"id":157068,"date":"2025-11-24T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157068\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:29:08","slug":"ireland-rugby-jury-rating-the-autumn-performances-andy-farrells-biggest-issues-and-the-six-nations-bolters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157068\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland rugby jury: Rating the Autumn performances, Andy Farrell\u2019s biggest issues, and the Six Nations bolters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryan Baird and his team-mates react after conceding a first try against South Africa during the Quilter Nations Series defeat to the Springboks at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3298217.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 and his team-mates react after conceding a first try against South Africa during the Quilter Nations Series defeat to the Springboks at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. 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)\">Our rugby jury debate Ireland\u2019s performances in the Autumn Nations series and Andy Farrell\u2019s biggest issues ahead of the 2026 Six Nations, among other hot topics. <\/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)\">R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: They beat the teams they were expected to beat and impressed against Australia, but their second-half collapse against New Zealand and the way they were eviscerated physically by South Africa undermine their efforts. They\u2019re firmly back in the pack now. 5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Baird and his team-mates react after conceding a first try against South Africa during the Quilter Nations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,8495,61,60,16766,4173,112,88515],"class_list":{"0":"post-157068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-david-kelly","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sinead-kissane","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-will-slattery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157068","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=157068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}