Our worst ever week but Mick can only play cards he’s dealt

Forty-five years after making my Ireland debut, 55 years after watching my country play for the first time, I’m struggling to think of a week when we produced back-to-back performances as poor as these.

Even our historic habit of rebounding quickly after one bad performance wasn’t visible in Geneva — the kind of thing that happens when you go into a game with a midfield lacking both confidence and technical ability.