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Interesting take.<\/p>\n
The Irish out-half debate took a few more twists and turns this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Sam Prendergast produced what was his worst performance in green, before being hauled off in the second half with the game at 10-10.<\/p>\n
However, he will be bitterly disappointed with an awful missed touch right at full-time.<\/p>\n
After defending for their lives on their own line, a James Lowe intercep brought Ireland back into Italian territory.<\/p>\n
A few phases later they were awarded a penalty eight metres from the Italian line, and a chance at a crucial try bonus point.<\/p>\n
Crowley unfortunately kicked the ball dead.<\/p>\n
After the game, Andy Farrell praised the out-half, despite the late error, and revealed that the Italians were possibly infringing when it occurred.<\/p>\n
He said: “I thought Jack played outstandingly well when he came on.<\/p>\n
“I’m actually gutted for him, because he wouldn’t normally do that.<\/p>\n
“I mean there’s a few things to check there.<\/p>\n
“I suppose offside, and jumping up and down in his eye line for the kick.<\/p>\n
“But still it was a bit of a shank. <\/p>\n
“But that wouldn’t be my overriding thought, I thought he was outstanding when he came on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interesting take. The Irish out-half debate took a few more twists and turns this afternoon. Sam Prendergast produced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-298380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298380","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=298380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}