Rúaidhrí O’Connor: Andy Farrell has used this Six Nations to build a deeper squad while rebooting his team

Ireland caught a few stray bullets from Rassie Erasmus even after they’d gone home from the last World Cup. The Springbok supremo was keen to draw attention to his selection strategy that stood in marked contrast with Andy Farrell’s, the idea being that he’d got it right and that Ireland had run out of legs before they ran out of road.