{"id":345419,"date":"2026-03-14T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/345419\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:23:07","slug":"there-for-the-taking-the-data-says-otherwise-and-ireland-will-wait-for-scots-to-crack-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/345419\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere for the taking?&#8221; The data says otherwise and Ireland will wait for Scots to crack, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become something of a pre-match ritual at this point. The week before Scotland play Ireland, someone in a navy jersey finds a microphone and tells the world that this time it\u2019ll be different. Stuart Hogg did it in 2020. He went to Dublin talking about Scotland expressing themselves, having fun. Then he dropped the ball over the try line, as his side lost by seven. They did it again at the World Cup in 2023, when Blair Kinghorn famously and probably stupidly said, \u201d They [Ireland] have been on a good run of form recently, but we\u2019ll end that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Join today and get full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal \u2013 TWO premium memberships for the price of one.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; It\u2019s become something of a pre-match ritual at this point. The week before Scotland play Ireland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,3654,15551],"class_list":["post-345419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-six-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345419","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=345419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}