Chris Henry: ‘We didn’t think this was the end of the journey’

You question everything after days like that.

Was the preparation right? Was the team selection correct? Was any stone left unturned? Were the heads right? So many questions, no single answer.

Chris Henry, in fairness, offered more than a few reasons for Ireland’s failure yesterday and it doesn’t make for pretty reading. Problems getting over the gain line. Difficulties at the breakdown. Failure to space themselves wide enough in defence. Inability, in general, to deal with Argentina’s wide game. Tie it all together and it amounts to a collective systems failure.