Familiar foes, familiar failings

VENGEANCE will have to wait.And with a year until Irelandmeet Wales again, the video tapes viewed today by the Ireland camp will fuel another sense of injustice to be added to the festering wounds Wales seem to inflict on Declan Kidney’s side.

It is 11 months since Mike Phillips’ controversial try helped the Welsh to a Six Nations win in Cardiff and though there was little to gripe about in last October’s World Cup quarter-final defeat, this third reverse inside a year will pile on the grievances felt when Wales are mentioned.

Yet, just as Phillips’ try at the Millennium Stadium should have been disallowed and Stephen Ferris did not deserve the yellow card or even the penalty awarded against him yesterday, neither incident was the real undoing of Ireland in those matches.