Gaffney interested in taking chances – not revenge

ANGER over Wales’s controversial try in last season’s Six Nations will not be a motivating factor for Ireland ahead of their World Cup quarter-final on Saturday, backs coach Alan Gaffney has insisted.

The previous day Jamie Heaslip said the Irish players were looking for “payback” over the incident in March, in which Welsh hooker Matthew Rees took a quick throw-in from which Mike Phillips scored a game-changing try en route to a home victory at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

Ireland went from 13-9 ahead to 16-13 down after the try was converted and Wales ran out 19-13 winners — but the five-pointer should not have stood because the quick throw was taken with a different ball than the one kicked into touch by Jonny Sexton and was therefore illegal.