In likes of Tommy O’Brien, Robert Baloucoune and Jamie Osborne, Andy Farrell has a fresh crop of winners ahead of Rugby World Cup
Ireland players (left ro right) Jamie Osborne, Tommy O’Brien and Robert Baloucoune with the Triple Crown trophy. Photo: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
As the man with the deaf dog says ‘it can be hard to call it’. That has been the case in the majority of this year’s Six Nations but when Ireland play Scotland we now expect Ireland to win.
In the build-up to yesterday’s game, Andy Farrell said that the fact that Ireland had won their last 11 matches against the Scots was irrelevant.