World Rugby’s breakdown mess and a Johnny Sexton clone stand between Australia and victory in the final Test of their spring tour against Ireland.
The feelgood factor from the wins against England and Wales will fade if the Wallabies struggle against an Irish side clearly looking for a statement performance of their own before coach Andy Farrell begins his British and Irish Lions duties.It has become evident over the past month that Ireland and Scotland are going to provide the bulk of Farrell’s Lions squad.
There has been a clutter of bodies all over the breakdown, and unless your name is Antoine Dupont the influence of halfbacks has been noticeably muted recently.Barnes wrote that World Rugby wanted to stop rewarding attacking teams with penalties if they were “trapping” an opposition body on their side of the ruck, which is all well and good, but it has turned the breakdown into a real bunfight in several Tests.
Even though they lost to the All Blacks three weeks ago, Ireland made life complete misery for New Zealand halfback Cortez Ratima, resulting in an ugly, stop-start Test with little attacking flow.
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