{"id":200378,"date":"2025-11-26T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200378\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:46:11","slug":"cian-tracey-andy-farrells-pride-is-justified-but-worrying-trends-exist-in-this-irish-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200378\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Andy Farrell\u2019s \u2018pride\u2019 is justified but worrying trends exist in this Irish team"},"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\">\nThe big questions are: Why were Ireland under the cosh for so long against South Africa? Why was their discipline, not just at the scrum, so poor? And why did they compound so many sloppy errors?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Crowley gets back in the nick of time to prevent Springboks winger Canan Moodie from scoring a try. Photo: John Dickson\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Crowley Springboks.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 gets back in the nick of time to prevent Springboks winger Canan Moodie from scoring a try. Photo: John Dickson\/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)\">In the immediate aftermath of Ireland\u2019s sobering defeat to South Africa last Saturday, Andy Farrell said his overriding emotion was that he was \u201cunbelievably proud\u201d of his players.<\/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)\">Farrell\u2019s glass half-full approach was reflective of how many Ireland supporters felt leaving the Aviva Stadium, but there was another strong cohort who were desperate for some home truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big questions are: Why were Ireland under the cosh for so long against South Africa? Why was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,39921,18,19,17,34991,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-200378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-cian-tracey","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115613478913955075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200378","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=200378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}