Hope for the future if attitude changes

IRISH captain Ronan O’Gara promised his side would do their utmost to put a smile back on the faces of the Irish public in advance of Saturday’s final Six Nations game at Twickenham. Did Ronan and his team-mates deliver?

A 33-10 defeat, doesn’t look like there’s anything to smile about there, does it? And yet I am smiling, I am happy, much happier than I was this time last week.

At least we had a cut, at least we had a go, and kept having a go to the death. We were undone, as we have been all season by our own mistakes. Nine turnovers inside the opposition 22, at least two tries conceded when there wasn’t even a hint of an overlap, is there another major test nation would allow that?