Keegan, who is credited with changing the mindset of Ireland's Olympic boxers and the Dublin footballers in their respective golden eras, puts Farrell up there with Billy Walsh and Jim Gavin in terms of being a leader
And the Ireland rugby team's performance director says that Andy Farrell is right to be convinced that he can lead his players to World Cup glory over the coming weeks.
"And it doesn't happen overnight. It's taken three-plus years to build the environment and belief in the group. "My career has been involved in breaking moulds, that's an exciting thing to be part of and I think we have that within this group, for sure." The IRFU's World Cup review for Japan 2019 generated headlines for its reference to 'performance anxiety'. Keegan was starting to work with players who had fallen in World Cups where so many of their predecessors had done so before.
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