{"id":76109,"date":"2025-10-12T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76109\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:43:12","slug":"the-november-jury-our-writers-assess-the-priorities-and-selection-dilemmas-facing-ireland-boss-andy-farrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76109\/","title":{"rendered":"The November Jury \u2013 our writers assess the priorities and selection dilemmas facing Ireland boss Andy Farrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Farrell is back at the helm following his sabbatical with the Lions. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2613c2c7-06d2-4c11-98b7-488d0ad4bcfe.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)\">Andy Farrell is back at the helm following his sabbatical with the Lions. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor, Cian Tracey, Will Slattery, David Kelly and Michael Sadlier<\/p>\n<p>Today at 18:30<\/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: There\u2019s a huge amount of work to do to have this team at the level where they can compete for honours in Australia in two years\u2019 time. They have become easier to defend, while the age profile in certain areas is worrying. Ireland\u2019s top seeding for the draw is secure, so now is the time to change up the side.<\/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)\">Cian Tracey: Andy Farrell\u2019s return to the helm couldn\u2019t be coming at a better time as Ireland look to get back to their peak, which we haven\u2019t seen them at in well over a year. Without getting too obsessed with the World Cup cycle, it\u2019s important that younger players are given a chance to step up in meaningful games \u2013 not just against Japan in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell is back at the helm following his sabbatical with the Lions. Photo: Sportsfile R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor, Cian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,4174,43],"class_list":["post-76109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76109","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=76109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}