'Pretty underwhelming' - Andy Farrell makes no excuses for Ireland effort against Fiji:
Tom O'Toole and Cian Healy after Ireland's win. Image: Tom Maher/INPHO IF YOU’D WALKED into the press conference having not seen this game, taken a scan of Andy Farrell and Tadhg Furlong’s body language, then listened to the tone of their review, you might have struggled to guess if Ireland had beaten Fiji.
Irish rugby has risen to the lofty position of almost taking wins like this for granted and it’s worth remembering that things weren’t always this way. But at the same time, this wasn’t of the standard that Farrell’s side have set for themselves. “But for Fiji, being down to 13 men, obviously with the red card and a couple of yellow cards, and the penalty count being 14-10 in our favour, we should have been a lot more clinical than we was.
“We have been pretty good of late starting well and our start obviously wasn’t the best. You fast forward to the last play of the game, us kicking the ball out against 14 men with the scrum ready to play when the game is already won probably sums the game up.”
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