{"id":117341,"date":"2025-10-12T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117341\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:21:14","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-time-for-andy-farrell-to-turn-the-page-and-plot-a-course-for-the-2027-world-cup-with-his-november-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117341\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor: Time for Andy Farrell to turn the page and plot a course for the 2027 World Cup with his November squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland\u2019s head coach won\u2019t be taking questions on his squad this week but plenty need to be answered\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'There is a lot of work to be done and this November is a crucial window for Andy Farrell.' Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/is 2994549.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)\">&#8216;There is a lot of work to be done and this November is a crucial window for Andy Farrell.&#8217; Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Back in his role as Ireland coach, Andy Farrell will be naming his squad for the Autumn Nations Series on Wednesday. And while we\u2019ll be hearing plenty from him this week, none of it will be in relation to that announcement.<\/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)\">In town to promote his new book, The Only Way I Know, he is on stage at the Bord G\u00e1is Theatre tonight where punters have forked out between \u20ac40 and \u20ac88 to hear him tell his story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s head coach won\u2019t be taking questions on his squad this week but plenty need to be answered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,67397,17,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-117341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-international-rugby","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}