{"id":285793,"date":"2026-02-07T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285793\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:20:38","slug":"cian-traceys-breakdown-how-irelands-lack-of-intent-led-to-fatal-opening-quarter-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285793\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey\u2019s Breakdown: How Ireland\u2019s \u2018lack of intent\u2019 led to fatal opening quarter in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bde3de6c-5bda-46e0-abed-b407e8a0e32f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/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)\">As damning statements go, Andy Farrell\u2019s withering assessment that his Ireland team \u201clacked intent\u201d in Thursday night\u2019s sobering Six Nations defeat in Paris was right up there.<\/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)\">At the heart of everything that Farrell stands for as a head coach, and indeed the bare minimum that he demands of his players, is that they pitch up at the required Test-match level, especially in an away venue as difficult as Stade de France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As damning statements go, Andy Farrell\u2019s withering assessment that his Ireland team \u201clacked intent\u201d in Thursday night\u2019s sobering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,13503,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-285793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285793","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=285793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}