Beirne adapts to the cards he is dealt

Tadhg Beirne isn’t about to start fretting over Typhoon Hagibis and its progress through the Pacific. And he gives the impression of a player who can’t see the point in second-guessing what it is that referees may or may not want from him at the breakdown either.

The Munster forward was only minutes into his World Cup debut, against Scotland in Yokohama, when Wayne Barnes consigned him to 10 minutes in the bin for an attempted poach that caught the official’s eye for all the wrong reasons.