Nothing to see here. Just a routine 12-try, 80-point romp for the Irish in stifling heat. Quite a triumph, then, but the real win was the seeming lack of any significant injury. There are unlikely to be any further soft matches for Ireland, so ferocious is Pool B. The main surprise was the strength of the team they fielded against the Romanians. Happily, the run-out was a success from almost all angles.
“We always ask before and after a game, would we be happy with the scoreline, and of course we would here,” said Andy Farrell. “I actually thought at half-time we had a few things to sort out. A few errors stopped our flow, but after the break I thought we were very composed.”
