{"id":302268,"date":"2026-02-17T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302268\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:15:09","slug":"six-nations-jury-irelands-scrum-pressure-is-it-time-for-a-change-at-no-10-and-whats-most-to-fear-from-twickenham-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302268\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations jury: Ireland\u2019s scrum pressure, is it time for a change at No 10 and what\u2019s most to fear from Twickenham trip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Baloucoune of Ireland in action against Lorenzo Pani of Italy during the Six Nations match at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0af5fc45-0900-4850-942b-a988d1ba8bb3.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)\">Robert Baloucoune of Ireland in action against Lorenzo Pani of Italy during the Six Nations match at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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 team of experts give their view on the questions raised by Ireland\u2019s win against Italy<\/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: The fact that the lesser heralded players are the ones making the big plays. Stuart McCloskey is the team\u2019s totem, Jamie Osborne was superb, and Robert Baloucoune and Cormac Izuchukwu are to the manner born. In the long run, the squad will be a lot stronger for the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Baloucoune of Ireland in action against Lorenzo Pani of Italy during the Six Nations match at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,61,60,16766,4173,112],"class_list":["post-302268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-sinead-kissane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302268","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=302268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}