Former Wales captain and match commentator Eddie Butler, who died suddenly in 2022, remarks on the play.
He picks out Sexton and delivers the ball. Adding to his four penalties, Sexton dropkicks from 45 metres out. The time on the clock is 82:47 and it is the last play of the match. If Gibson-Park and Sexton are injured before the tournament or during play in France, do Ireland’s World Cup chances vanish with them? Is that how fragile the hold is on Irish ambition?
Gibson-Park sets the team rhythm and tempo. His cadence is the regular repeatable pattern in which he plays the game. Always a sniping threat, he is especially strong in attacking mode when he can whip up pace and drive momentum. The whole team rise to it. Outstanding as the summer and November series of matches were for Ireland, the pick for backup scrumhalf and outhalf is far from simple and poses the question as to whether Ireland have a particular World Cup vulnerability.
Conor Murray, who started at scrumhalf for Munster was replaced by Craig Casey after 50 minutes, while former Irish centre Gordon D’Arcy observed in his column this week that scrumhalf Paddy Patterson has arguably been Munster’s most effective half-back this season.
Johnny, with Craig Casey & Jack Crowley Ireland will be well covered, don't worry
Isn’t it the same with all teams?
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