Irish rewrite script but do they believe?

ON Saturday morning, in our national newspaper, the creatively named The Australian, there was a degree of chest thumping about what was to happen that evening in Auckland.

The following analysis was tossed into the public arena.

“When England steamrolled the Wallabies scrum in the quarter-final in Marseilles in 2007, it would have been almost unimaginable that Australia would enter the tournament four years later with a set-piece that commanded respect rather than ridicule.