Twitter threatens sanctity of the dressing room
A strike-rate of two wins from three, both secured away from home, is a good return at any time. However there’s a flip-side: Ireland could just as easily have been three from three or none from three. The performances to date have fluctuated between the sublime and the ridiculous.
Factor in the frustrating tendency to shoot ourselves in the foot and you have a proper curate’s egg of a championship. It also has to be recognised that Ireland’s two victories, by margins of two and three points respectively, are over the two sides that will be left winless and contesting for the wooden spoon.
