Tommy Martin: Is it so bad that Ireland are rugby’s version of Cruyff’s Holland?

The great brains of Irish rugby will mull over whether to change much at all.

FINAL COUNTDOWN: RG Snyman runs with the ball during a South Africa training session. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

If World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont were his FIFA equivalent, he wouldn’t have spent the week leading up to the World Cup final announcing competition restructures and calendar changes.

Gianni Infantino, were he kingpin of global rugby, would have simply announced that the 2023 Rugby World Cup was the greatest ever, that the 2027 version in Saudi Arabia was going to be even better and, after making dubious statements about various minority groups and shaking hands with some dictators, left it at that.