Duncan Casey: What Ireland must do to kick on and catch rugby's trendsetters

In test rugby, there are clear lines in the sand where the trend of the moment becomes, then ceases to be, that trend. For most of the period between the 2015 and 2019 World Cups, that trend was the box kick

PLENTY TO PONDER: Andy Farrell and Ireland need to start throwing a bit of caution to the wind and take some risk in the hope of finding reward, writes Duncan Casey. Picture: Adam Davy

Some of my favourite scenes in The Simpsons are flashbacks to Homer’s youth, and the interactions he had with his father, Abe who walks in on young Homer and Barney singing Leo Sayer’s ‘You Make Me Feel Like Dancing’ in the mirror.

Homer tells his father he wouldn’t understand, as he’s not “with it”, to which Abe replies: “I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary...”