Determined Donnacha up for battle

As far as Donnacha Ryan is concerned, he might as well worry about getting run over in the street than bother calculating Ireland’s world ranking scenarios ahead of today’s clash with Argentina.

For him, it is cart-before-the-horse stuff, and just not worth the effort so the Ireland lock will ignore the permutations and instead concentrate on getting his team’s performance right.

“I don’t think we can allow ourselves to think about [rankings]. If you do, you’re going to be worrying about stuff like crossing the road and worrying about being hit by a car. You’d be there all day.