Ireland Rugby Social podcast., external<\/a><\/p>\n“The way Ireland want to play and move the ball, we don’t have those specimens that they have, so in order to do that we need to be really accurate and make very few mistakes.<\/p>\n
“Andy Farrell said about the continuity, about a few balls going into touch, and you really need to click in a game like that to have a chance.”<\/p>\n
With Ireland winning a Six Nations Triple Crown, but also suffering four double-digit defeats, it has been an uneven 2025-26 for Farrell’s side.<\/p>\n
Over the next 15 months, huge focus will be on the 2027 World Cup in Australia with Murray believing there is still time for players to force their way into the head coach’s plans before the tournament.<\/p>\n
“Because Ireland were criticised during the season a little bit, do people on the edge of that see the opportunity? That’s only going to be good for provincial teams that lads will want to perform.”<\/p>\n
Murray won his first Test cap in the months immediately prior to the 2011 World Cup and predicts we could see something similar this time around.<\/p>\n
He added: “There’ll be someone we’re not even talking about and that’s the beauty of a World Cup year, someone who gets a shot early in the season with the [current international] lads getting the extended break, and grabs it with two hands.<\/p>\n
“For bolters or even guys on the edge of the squad, this season is huge because you know what’s happening at the end of the year with the World Cup and lads want to put their best foot forward, naturally.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former scrum half Conor Murray believes Ireland lacked the accuracy to carry out their gameplan against the All…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-556162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556162","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=556162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}