Farrell confident history will add spice to All Blacks World Cup rematch
Spat between Sexton and Ioane has added another layer of intrigue to first meeting since 2023 quarter-final
In Ireland we have a curious custom of thanking the bus driver when he or she pulls up at our stop. No one knows how or where it started, but this salute on your step out the door is widespread, and has endured. So, you’re asking yourself, maybe Rieko Ioane was getting in on the action when Ireland’s designated quarter-final stop arrived at last year’s World Cup, the last time these teams met. The Kiwis were driving the bus at the time. Maybe he was asking Johnny Sexton if Ireland’s departing legend had forgotten his manners.
Not according to Sexton’s account. That little poisonous interplay between them has hurried this fixture along, even if Ireland’s fly-half is involved now only in the background as coach to the 10s in the squad, and won’t be on site for this. For sure though there’ll be something in the air.
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