Australia's Will Genia is wrapped up during Ireland's victory over the Wallabies
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Writing in the Daily Telegraph Mick Cleary asks if the Southern Hemisphere sides are finally taking the Six Nations' side seriously.
"A smug curl of the lip has never been far from southern hemisphere faces when rugby of the north is being discussed. Too strait-laced, too one-dimensional, too boring. Well, by all accounts the curl was nowhere to be seen in Auckland on Saturday night, nor for that matter in Wellington the previous weekend when Wales caused world champions South Africa so much bother.
"But it was Ireland’s hard-knuckle win over Australia at Eden Park that has changed countenances down this part of the world. Maybe this dour lot from the grey, northern reaches can play rugby after all. Test rugby, that is, not the floss that is sometimes on show in Super rugby, that vibrant, highly skilled competition, a brand of the game that excites but which can breed ruinously self-indulgent tendencies."
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