{"id":373833,"date":"2026-03-08T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/373833\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:32:16","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-jack-crowley-must-show-command-and-control-to-make-this-ireland-team-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/373833\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Jack Crowley must show command and control to make this Ireland team his own"},"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\">Scotland\u2019s chief conductor Russell comes to town and battle of the rival No 10s makes for interesting sub-plot\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Jack Crowley is currently in the second chance saloon after Sam Prendergast failed to take his opportunity.'\u00a0Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3380393.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;Jack Crowley is currently in the second chance saloon after Sam Prendergast failed to take his opportunity.&#8217;\u00a0Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">Last summer, we got a reminder of what the Andy Farrell gameplan looks like with a world-class No 10 running it.<\/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)\">Finn Russell arrives into Dublin on Saturday for a reunion with his Lions teammates with a championship on the line, as well as a Triple Crown. While the Scottish outhalf may have divided opinion in Ireland at various points of his career, there is no doubting the player he has become in the last couple of years since he returned from France to play for Bath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s chief conductor Russell comes to town and battle of the rival No 10s makes for interesting sub-plot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,17,73724,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-373833","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-ireland","12":"tag-jack-crowley","13":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116191923252123712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373833","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=373833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}