Peter Jackson: Triple Crowns have never counted for much in Garden of Eden

Southern Hemisphere 4, Europe 0, a complete reversal of what happened in this neck of the woods last November

OOPS: Ireland’s Jamison Gibson-Park

The results arrived by morning, noon and night from places scattered across three continents and a distance of some 7,000 miles.

All day long they told the same old story, that for all the fanciful promises to the contrary some things never change - like soggy summers and Ireland losing in New Zealand.