![]() Do not go thinking he was shirking his other duties either. It is difficult to overstate the absurdity of the mere idea of a tighthead doing things like that last century. At one point he put Sexton through a gap with the deftness of a man half his size. Tadhg Furlong, for example, is a tighthead prop. Photograph: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile/Getty Images Garry Ringrose scores Ireland’s fourth try against Wales. Ireland have long favoured what is known as the Sexton loop, Johnny loving the licence to lurk behind the front line and pick his moment, but now any number of players are given licence to spring each other through gaps. The try was scored by Bundee Aki, who finished after a perfect cut-out pass by, well, this bloke Hansen again, but the blur of hands and bristling muscles in the build-up were multiple. Ireland could not quite finish his chip and chase, but they scored from the line-out anyway. A minute in, he was away down the left as if he had played with this crack outfit for years. ![]() The Aussie-born son of an Irish mother pitched up a few months ago to honour his new contract with Connacht, and here he became a fully fledged Ireland international. Even connoisseurs of rugby outside Galway would be forgiven for needing to read up about Mack Hansen this week. This is a familiar Ireland team, all the more so given 11 of them play for the same province, but here they launched a new star from the west. ![]()
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