Ireland need to become more comfortable in chaos

While monitoring the fortunes of the Irish rugby team over the past month — indeed, the past year and a half — my mind has often thought back to something that came up at the inaugural Movement and Skill Acquisition Ireland conference in Cork IT in April 2018.

Only a month after Joe Schmidt’s team had blown away England in Twickenham to complete the Grand Slam, a number of Eddie Jones’ staff were among the speakers and attendees in Cork.