Ireland face Wales at the Aviva Stadium this weekend, looking to build on their historic win over England last time out.
Wales are the tournament weak link. The public perception is that this is the time to rotate Ireland’s squad and develop more players. Home advantage adds to that narrative and it’s certainly easier to change a player or two when playing at home, in familiar circumstances.
However, Wales showed last week against Scotland that they’re going to beat someone at some stage and nobody wants to be on the receiving end of that shock result.
I don’t expect Andy Farrell to make sweeping changes. It hasn’t been his form throughout his tenure with Ireland and I don’t expect him to…