Owen Doyle: Give the scrum back its purpose or risk damaging the Six Nations - and Australia’s regeneration
Let’s hope the Six Nations is not overly affected by debatable scrum decisions
Wallabies
Qatar Airways agrees £80m sponsorship deal for rugby union’s Nations Championship
Eight-year agreement deepens Qatar’s role in the sport ahead of inaugural Nations Championship next year
Matt Williams: Autumn games showed the huge task ahead for Simon Easterby and Ireland
South Africa were the best team of the Autumn Internationals, while Ireland’s attacking game needs some retooling
Gerry Thornley: Ireland’s fitful displays made for a rather disconcerting month
There were positives along the way in the three wins but the reliance on five-metre lineouts tells us that Ireland’s attack has become more blunt
Owen Doyle: Scrum is too often an ugly blot on the game, rather than a terrific attacking platform
Joe Schmidt will be examining video of Ireland’s win over Australia with a particular focus on knock-ons
Hugo Keenan is Ireland’s Wolfe in green clothing as he helps clean up the occasional mess
Keenan again showed his boundless enthusiasm in supporting colleagues
Ireland capable of kicking on from patchy autumnal campaign, says Farrell
‘Three from four, some good stuff and some not so-good stuff ... But that’s what you want in an autumn isn’t it?’
Ireland ‘just a little bit off’ as they grind out a hard-earned victory over Australia
Andy Farrell’s side demonstrate mental strength to eventually prevail despite Wallabies’ resolute display
It’s beginning to look a Slot like Liverpool got the right man
Mo Salah doing his Exocet missile penalty thing had Anfield bellowing at Pep ‘you’re getting sacked in the morning’
Five things we learned from the Autumn Nations Series
Ireland underwhelm with errors; Schmidt’s young team; outhalf competition set to continue
Australia media point to improved Lions tour prospects after ‘gutsy Ireland defeat’
Joe Schmidt’s side take positives from last game of November tour despite failing to hold on for victory in Dublin
Andy Farrell ‘proud’ of hard-fought victory over Australia
Ireland head coach says team were ‘feeling sorry’ for themselves at half-time before turnaround in the second half
Joe Schmidt: ‘I felt we could have built on our lead after half-time’
Schmidt was hopeful for the future of Australian rugby but was also reminded that much work still has to be done
Ireland 22 Australia 19 FT: As it happened
Follow all the action as Andy Farrell's men aim to end November on a high
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