Searching for solace as D-Day looms
While nobody was getting overly excited then — it was a distinctly understrength Welsh combination — the fall off in performance in the intervening games against Scotland, Wales again and England is quite worrying.
While waiting for colleagues immediately after last Saturday’s game in Twickenham, I lost count of the number of stressed Irish fans who approached me looking for reassurance that Ireland were holding something in reserve for the bigger challenges down the road.
