Ireland 29-10 England: What did we learn from World Cup warm-up?

Ireland boosted their World Cup preparations and heaped unit connected an England broadside intelligibly lacking confidence

Ireland scored 5 tries to convincingly bushed England successful their World Cup warm-up crippled successful Dublin.

Vunipola reddish paper adds to England woes

With Owen Farrell's World Cup information already successful doubt, England caput manager Steve Borthwick faces further disciplinary-based disruptions this week pursuing Billy Vunipola's reddish paper against Ireland.

Farrell's Saracens team-mate Vunipola was initially shown yellowish for his precocious tackle connected Andrew Porter successful the 2nd half, but it was upgraded to reddish pursuing a review.

Borthwick, who would not remark specifically connected the Vunipola incident, present faces a captious week successful his preparations with the imaginable of losing 2 cardinal players for a information of England's excavation matches definite to predominate the build-up to Saturday's Test against Fiji astatine Twickenham.

With Vunipola the lone specializer fig 8 successful the England squad, a potential six-game ban would make a superior headache for Borthwick and his coaching staff.

"Hopefully we volition find a decision connected some matters this week and it won't spell into different week. Once I person each the facts, I volition woody with them," said Borthwick.

"We talked astir the mode this Test week was disrupted [by the Farrell saga] and I request to accommodate passim the week. It's different situation that's been thrown astatine us."

Stars align for centurion Earls

Veteran helping Keith Earls gave the Ireland fans a infinitesimal to savour erstwhile helium marked his 100th headdress with the last effort of the game

The astir memorable infinitesimal of the crippled from an Irish position was unquestionably the ear-splitting roar produced by the assemblage erstwhile Keith Earls crashed implicit successful the country to rubber-stamp Ireland's triumph and people his 100th headdress successful style.

It was arsenic large arsenic the Aviva has been each year, and with Ireland having clinched the Grand Slam connected location ungraded successful March, that's truly saying something.

Earls, who has been connected the Ireland country for 15 years and is hoping to look astatine a 4th World Cup, offered a thrilling reminder of what helium offers retired wide astatine the extremity of a crippled that featured tries from Ireland's first-choice wings Mack Hansen and James Lowe.

A hugely fashionable subordinate of the squad, Munster stalwart Earls, 35, became the ninth Irish centurion connected Saturday and provided Ireland with the cleanable World Cup send-off erstwhile helium took Bundee Aki's walk successful his stride and raised the Aviva extortion with his 36th planetary try.

"Obviously the communicative of the time is it's precise fitting that Keith gets his 100th headdress and we made definite helium does that with a W, and besides him scoring a effort successful Keith Earls benignant successful the country conscionable made the time for everyone really," said Farrell.

Ireland inactive person overmuch much to give

Saturday was a stark illustration of wherever Ireland and England find themselves 3 weeks retired from the World Cup.

For Ireland, Farrell's near-four-year reign has been gathering up to this point.

There has been overmuch experimentation and a fewer bumps on the way, but everything we person seen successful the past 12 months suggests this Ireland broadside are susceptible of breaking caller crushed connected the biggest signifier successful France.

Like each large teams, Farrell's Ireland person mastered the creation of squeezing wins retired of performances that autumn good abbreviated of their maximum.

Saturday was different illustration of that. With 15 changes from the Italy game, Ireland looked rusty and disjointed, particularly successful the archetypal half.

And conscionable arsenic helium did aft the triumph implicit Italy, Farrell utilized the connection 'clunky' successful his appraisal of the performance. But arsenic England toiled, those successful greenish recovered a mode to people 5 tries and grounds their 12th consecutive Test triumph stretching backmost to past year's circuit of New Zealand.

They proceed to tick disconnected victories, but it is wide from Farrell's post-match comments that helium feels his Ireland instrumentality inactive person truthful overmuch much to springiness earlier they scope the heights of, say, their Six Nations triumph implicit France oregon past summer's Test bid triumph implicit the All Blacks.

"It had a spot of everything: good, atrocious and ugly," Farrell said of his side's display.

"I wasn't excessively blessed astatine half-time. We had them successful a spot wherever we could propulsion a small spot harder and marque it a small spot easier for ourselves but we didn't footwear on.

"I was truly pleased that we recovered oregon bushed backmost into the game. I thought we scored immoderate large tries."

Borthwick faces unenviable task of reversing England fortunes

England person present mislaid 4 of their past 5 matches since beating Wales successful the Six Nations

As for England, who are little than a twelvemonth into the Borthwick era, alternatively than revive assurance successful their World Cup prospects aft a disappointing Six Nations campaign, these warm-up games person alternatively heightened the suspicion that further heartache awaits them successful France.

Discipline is evidently a blistery topic, but England were often dilatory and predictable successful Dublin, with George Ford - who made his archetypal commencement since 2021 arsenic Farrell's replacement astatine fly-half - failing to grasp a aureate accidental to physique connected his match-winning cameo disconnected the seat against Wales past week.

England person present mislaid 4 of their past 5 matches, conceding 20 tries successful the process and scoring conscionable five. The roadworthy up appears bleak, but Borthwick is intelligibly not successful the temper to crockery retired immoderate damning verdicts of his player's efforts conscionable yet.

"Whilst I'm incredibly disappointed with the result, the players kept fighting," helium said.

"I thought the players that came disconnected the seat added connected the pitch.

"Just earlier half-time astatine 7-3, we missed immoderate opportunities and turned implicit shot successful the last third, truthful we weren't capable to enactment capable unit connected them.

"When it was 15 against 15 it was a choky battle, unluckily it didn't enactment 15 connected 15."

With Fiji to travel to Twickenham connected Saturday, Borthwick faces the unenviable task of rejuvenating his squad earlier launching their World Cup bid against Argentina connected 9 September.

Farrell awaits Sheehan update arsenic enactment looms

This was, of course, Ireland's past run-out astatine location earlier jetting disconnected to France, wherever Farrell volition unveil his 33-man squad connected 28 August.

Farrell chopped 5 players from his sheet aboriginal this week and said helium was "close" to finalising his 33 pursuing the triumph implicit England.

Ireland person had immoderate insignificant wounded concerns recently, but portion Farrell said Jack Conan, Ronan Kelleher and Dave Kilcoyne volition "definitely" beryllium acceptable for the World Cup, helium does not yet cognize the afloat grade of Dan Sheehan's wounded aft the Leinster hooker injured his ft against England.

With Sheehan having enjoyed an outstanding past 12 months for nine and state and Kelleher abbreviated of lucifer sharpness, an wounded to the erstwhile would beryllium a worrying improvement earlier facing Romania successful their Pool B opener connected 9 September.

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