A lacklustre Ireland slumped to a 15 – 32 defeat against a developing Australia who looked too classy for the bumbling boys in green at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday evening.
Ireland were outscored by four tries to nil with 12 of their 15 points coming from the boot of Jonny Sexton and the other three from the boot of, second half replacement, Ian Madigan.
Yet again it was a lot of travelling for me this week and I didn’t read the Ireland team until Saturday morning, only to find myself outraged by the non inclusion of Dan Tuohy – the in form second row in Ireland at the moment. It certainly gave me a few concerns about the credibility of any coaching side that opted to select Twerking Toner ahead of Dangerous Dan. The lanky Leinster player may divert a couple of lineouts your way but the scrums would suffer!
So it proved, with an uneven distribution of power in the second row, and Peter O’Mahoney . . .
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