Bluffer’s Guide to Ireland going out of the Rugby World Cup

All of which is true and fair and doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. Ireland are out. They didn’t have a lead at any stage in the match. They lost their 17-game winning streak. It all tastes like ashes.This is the hardest part to deal with. There have been 10 Rugby World Cups in history. This is the eighth time Ireland have made it as far as the quarter-final. It is also the eighth time they have gone out in the quarter-final.

Here’s a quirky statistic for you to throw around in polite company. The last time Ireland were ahead at any stage of a World Cup quarter-final was 1991 against Australia. And that lasted a whole three minutes before Michael Lynagh’s try knocked us out at the death. For whatever reason, we’re just not good at getting past this particular hurdle.October 14, 2023

By now, the whole world has seen Luca Sexton walking around the Stade De France afterwards with tears streaming down his face, looking up at his father and saying, “You’re still the best, Dad.” So look, life goes on. We all know that. But this one hurt. Last night was Sexton’s last game of rugby. He came along in 2009, fought all fights, won all wars except this one. He morphed over the years from an angry young man in a hurry to the greying, half-smiling, still half-cranky national institution that believed right to the end that Ireland could win a World Cup. His tears at the end were beautifully, achingly real.

As for where Ireland go now, that’s all up in the air. Despite Sexton looking tired towards the end last night, Jack Crowley didn’t get on the pitch. The young Munster out-half wasn’t trusted to come on and dig Ireland out of the hole they were in. Right to the end, it shows how reliant Ireland were on Sexton.

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