The flanker looked as if he had come from a recently scolded dressing room.
Jordi Murphy appeared to take Ireland’s 16-10 defeat to Wales very personally.
The Leinster back-row came out second best from his breakdown duel against the likes of Dan Lydiate and man-of-the-match Justin Tipuric.
Murphy is all but assured his place in Ireland’s 31-man squad but there was no telling him that.
Post-match, Murphy spoke about letting Paul O’Connell down on his final home game, Ireland getting out-foxed at the breakdown and
Murphy and the rest of the Ireland squad discover, on Sunday afternoon, if they will make Joe Schmidt’s squad.
As he said – it is the email the players want, not the phone call.
Anything but the phone call.
