{"id":172500,"date":"2025-11-10T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172500\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:48:12","slug":"tony-ward-ireland-a-long-way-off-form-required-to-take-on-the-wallabies-and-springboks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172500\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ward: Ireland a long way off form required to take on the Wallabies and Springboks"},"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\">Scoreboard flattered Andy Farrell\u2019s team but bench-impact is a positive\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Crowley celebrates after scoring Ireland's first try during the  Nations Series match against  Japan at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0e54f3e5-8169-4267-a400-83420c9ac7b4.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)\">Jack Crowley celebrates after scoring Ireland&#8217;s first try during the  Nations Series match against  Japan at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">That the better side won convincingly \u2013 on the scoreboard at least \u2013 is beyond dispute but that the better side deserved to win convincingly is not.<\/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)\">Before Saturday\u2019s game against Japan, Andy Farrell had declared his pre-match mantra as \u201ca lot needing to be better as far as accuracy is concerned but our intent in how we play the game, we need a reaction to that\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scoreboard flattered Andy Farrell\u2019s team but bench-impact is a positive Jack Crowley celebrates after scoring Ireland&#8217;s first try&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132,72537],"class_list":{"0":"post-172500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tony-ward"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115523361689214211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172500","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=172500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}