Andy Farrell has responded after Fiji head coach Mick Byrne suggested that Ireland were the beneficiaries of a controversial officiating call. Rookie fly-half Sam Prendergast, who was making his first Test start,

That was just the response Andy Farrell was seeking after two not terribly stirring performances in losing to the All Blacks and then just about beating the Pumas.

Andy Farrell will have been happy with the scoreboard, eight tries is a decent return in any game, 52-17 looks good. The idea that there were two debutants, Gus McCarthy and Cormac Izuchukwu, an out-half Sam Prendergast making his starting debut,