These two video games towards the back-to-back world champions at all times felt like one final push from the identical group that took Eire to a 2023 Grand Slam and the primary rating on the earth this time final 12 months.
With a sure-to-be eagerly anticipated autumn assembly with the All Blacks in Dublin as their subsequent fixture, and England rising as a sizeable menace to their current Six Nations supremacy, Farrell is just not about to start out experimenting for experimentation’s sake.
However it is going to be fascinating to see if the baton of Eire’s non secular chief is completely handed from O’Mahony to Doris for November, whereas Ciaran Frawley has clearly staked a declare to push Jack Crowley for the quantity 10 jersey, even whether it is one he hardly ever wears for his province Leinster.
Uncapped gamers like Sam Prendergast, Cormac Izuchukwu and Nathan Doak, who travelled to South Africa with out seeing the pitch, will look to kick on too, even when it could possibly be subsequent summer season earlier than they see vital time in inexperienced.
Precise fixtures are nonetheless being finalised however the aspect will likely be heading for Georgia and Romania subsequent July, matches that may lend themselves to a deepening of the expertise pool akin to when Japan and USA got here to Dublin in 2021.
Farrell himself will likely be in any other case engaged by then, in fact, as he leads the Lions in Australia together with his assistant Simon Easterby anticipated to take non permanent cost.
Change is coming for Eire subsequent season. After ending their longest marketing campaign on such a excessive in Durban, they give the impression of being able to embrace it.