82 - 8 win. But how will Ireland feel after first RWC game?

I'm honestly not sure that day could have gone any better for Ireland, yes, because it's interesting not to pull back the curtain too much on what we're doing here in TV land behind the scenes, but as a

game

develops , we could build different packages and later we'll look at Johnny Sexton's and Joe McCarthy's and we started taking some clips that were broadly under the umbrella of the neglected Ireland, British weapons of war cut back on job learnings, uh, whatever word you use. "I want to use it, but I think as the

game

went on the mistakes disappeared like that.

That package is a little strange in Divine on the vine. It's like really, you know, if that's the last burnout before South Africa, you'd say that "I'll

feel

pretty good about how they finished, they really looked fit, yes they did, they absolutely grew in the game, yes, now at the same time, you know, Romania doesn't have the same level of conditioning as Ireland and us. We'll see more and more throughout the tournament that some games can be a little close for 50 or 60 minutes and then the better team

will

really pull away in the last 20 minutes, like Italy did before, and that would be expected from the better teams but it is very pleasant to see a team that does not take its foot off the accelerator and keeps going for the juggler and keeps going for more points and more attempts and Johnny alluded to that point difference you just you I don't know at what point in the tournament that difference could be really important for Ireland, but I think they also calmed down.

Even last night when New Zealand and France played you could see the nerds like it was a World Cup and for most players they only play One World Cup, this is the day and I think Alan got it right at half time when he said that sometimes the best decision is not to pass, so the nerves, uh, get to you and just get absorbed in the game, you can see the players absorbed in the game, they started making better decisions and those decisions led to more points, better attempts and better results, so I think like in all World Cups, the

first

one is Oh, thank God, that's over, yeah, let's move on to the next one.

Now we are in the process of the competition and I think there are many World Cup debutants there. I think there is probably one thing missing. from a performance element it was the opportunity to have to defend for long phases, because you know at some point that's going to happen, you'd rather experience that early on so you can plug the gap and work on it in training, um, yeah. They

will

have been training 15 or 15, but as Johnny said, there is nothing like the real thing, so they are probably happy with the result and the way they performed an attack, but they would have liked to have had a test. longer, yeah, there's a lot you can get out of a game like this, yeah, yeah, there's no crisis, the starter is there, oh yeah, and listen, here's the other one, no injuries, now we're over it, like we all They looked in good shape, there is no one, there is no one.

You know, grabbing an arm or a hamstring, you know they're going to do it and I have to say it's obviously very disappointing for Robbie Henshaw. I thought Bundy was absolutely exceptional. You know, absolutely exceptional. I don't know anything against poor Armani or anyone else at that time. but I thought he was man of the match for Ireland, for sure.