Tommy Martin: Where’s the beef? Oh, the All Blacks have plenty with us

The location of that last meeting between the two teams means we should call this one Beef Wellington.

BEEF: Dan Sheehan of Ireland tussles with Pierre Schoeman of Scotland during the 2023 Rugby World Cup Pool B match between Ireland and Scotland at the Stade de France in Paris, France. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

One thing we learned from a game which, when you boil it down, strip away the grand setting and turn down the Zombie, was another routine win over Scotland, is that the beef is real.

Beef, in the 1990s US hip hop sense, is something of a discredited phenomenon in modern sport, which expresses a preference for plant-based alternatives when it comes to motivation.