Ireland still searching for that extra clinical edge ahead of World Cup

No team committed as much handling errors across 80 minutes in this tournament as Ireland on Saturday.

ALWAYS IMPROVING: Ireland’s Tadhg Furlong. Pic: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland

Never give a sucker an even break. That’s what they say, right? Ireland were generosity personified on Saturday. Time after time they offered a vulnerable England team an in. They went out of their way to inject confidence into the visiting ranks with their carelessness and inaccuracies.

Twenty years after Martin Johnson refused to shift, Ireland laid out another red carpet.