'We're expecting them to come after us' - Tadhg Beirne braced for Wallabies onslaught

'If you look at their results, they’ve kind of being going that way a little bit,' Beirne said of Australia. 'They’ll have a massive performance and then the next week they might lose and then they’ll have another big performance.'

BRACED FOR IMPACT: Tadhg Beirne

Tadhg Beirne is reading nothing into Australia’s shock defeat to Italy in Florence last weekend, not when he believes the Wallabies have made Ireland their number one target on tour this November.

The tourists’ head coach Dave Rennie has been copping flak all week in the Australian media after his decision to make 11 changes from the previous week’s epic near-miss against France resulted in a second consecutive one-point loss as the Azzurri landed a historic first Test win thanks to a missed conversion from debutant replacement Ben McDonald.