Andy Farrell begs to differ with loose talk of Welsh weakness

The visitors will start as favourites when the sides meet in Cardiff on Sunday but the Ireland head coach is bracing himself for a titanic tussle

Ireland head coach Andy Farrell. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Andy Farrell has predicted a war of attrition when his Ireland side takes on Wales this weekend in the Six Nations.

The two countries have enjoyed a prickly relationship across the last decade or so, much of that arising from the occasional barbs aimed across the Irish Sea by former Welsh coach Warren Gatland, but much has changed.