Least surprising headline of the week: Ireland’s Australia tour in doubt.

Big loss: Tomas Francis leaves the pitch injured during World Cup semi-final

Tomas Francis went to the World Cup ahead of schedule for his 50th Test in record time, a prop leaving the speed merchants in his slipstream.
In a perfect world, he would have reached the landmark in the final and along the way found a less hazardous way of stopping Duane Vermeulen, a very large South African who came careering towards him in Yokohama like a ten-ton truck at full throttle.
Five months later, the unflinching Welsh tig...