{"id":313021,"date":"2026-02-23T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:03:10","slug":"brian-moore-i-can-point-out-the-big-flaw-in-english-set-up-that-aided-irelands-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313021\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Moore: I can point out the big flaw in English set-up that aided Ireland\u2019s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"England's Henry Pollock tackles Ireland's Caelan Doris during the Six Nations match at the Allianz stadium, Twickenham in London. Photo. Adam Davy\/PA Wire.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RUGBYU E (180).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)\">England&#8217;s Henry Pollock tackles Ireland&#8217;s Caelan Doris during the Six Nations match at the Allianz stadium, Twickenham in London. Photo. Adam Davy\/PA Wire.<\/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)\">England\u2019s tenuous hopes of contending for a Six Nations title were washed away comprehensively on Saturday at the Allianz Stadium. The record home defeat by Ireland leaves England with one Grand Slam since 2003, and a last title win in 2020.<\/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)\">The current group of players are not responsible for that history, but they are bound up in it. Perhaps this is why the post-match reaction of fans was extreme as they trailed away from the game. Words like \u201cpathetic\u201d and \u201cembarrassing\u201d were theirs, not mine, but coming from paying customers means they cannot be blithely dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Henry Pollock tackles Ireland&#8217;s Caelan Doris during the Six Nations match at the Allianz stadium, Twickenham in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-313021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313021","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=313021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}