Humphreys arrives on the IRFU at an attention-grabbing time. Along with Farrell’s momentary departure subsequent 12 months, the boys’s and ladies’s sevens groups are making ready for the Paris Olympics whereas the Eire girls’s 15s staff have a World Cup in England to look ahead subsequent 12 months.
The boys’s staff’s bid to lastly finish almost 40 years of World Cup heartache led to agony in Paris final 12 months with defeat by the All Blacks, however Humphreys says he’ll “depart no stone unturned” whereas overseeing Eire’s World Cup preparations throughout his tenure.
“It is a query which has been posed since all of us as rugby gamers,” Humphreys stated when requested what offers him confidence that Eire will lastly break by underneath his watch.
“I bear in mind watching David Kirk enjoying on the World Cup in 1987. Since then, any of us who’ve come by, that is been the aspiration.
“All of us wish to be a part of an organisation of a staff that wins the World Cup. We can be leaving no stone unturned in attempting to try this.”
Humphreys added that Eire couldn’t have had “higher preparation” for final 12 months’s World Cup in France, through which they received all 4 Pool B video games – together with a 13-8 victory over eventual winners South Africa – earlier than falling to New Zealand within the quarter-final.
“In the long run, we misplaced to New Zealand by one rating.
“We got here in [to the tournament] 17 video games unbeaten and we had only a few accidents within the competitors. So, to me, that is not a unfavorable. That is sport. In fact we wish to win it however the nature of sport is usually you simply do not win.”
