Problems with scrum and lineout were punished ruthlessly by Jonny May as
Ireland were manhandled out of the game
A first glimpse of a future without Ireland’s longstanding thinktank at half-back, a first glimpse of a side that cannot quite summon the fury of recent times – and it reveals a work in progress with much still to accomplish. This
England team were in the
World Cup final a year ago and are Six Nations champions, but if that is the standard to which Ireland aspire, which it must be, Andy Farrell found much to ponder here, his team manhandled out of this contest to a degree surely inconceivable to recent iterations in green.
Much was familiar. Ireland made England tackle nearly four times as much as the other way round, but they found hosts who were more than willing.