Australia v Ireland
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
31 – 33
4 July 2026Allianz Stadium, Sydney
What the model says about Australia v Ireland
- Kick-off
- 10:10 UTC
- Elevation
- 38 m
- Temperature
- 11.7 °C
- Rainfall
- 0.0 mm
- Wind
- 14 km/h
Daily means at the ground, from the ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo.
Beside a name: points of margin the side has beaten its own rating by with him in the squad, against the same period without him. 28 of the 46 named here have enough matches on both sides to measure.
Australia
- 1Angus Bell+4.6
- 2Josh Nasser-13.8
- 3Allan Alaalatoa-0.8
- 4Josh Canham
- 5Jeremy Williams
- 6Rob Valetini
- 7Fraser McReight+12.2
- 8Harry Wilson+1.1
- 9Ryan Lonergan
- 10Carter Gordon
- 11Dylan Pietsch
- 12Len Ikitau+2.7
- 13Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii
- 14Max Jorgensen
- 15Jock Campbell
Replacements
- 16Brandon Paenga-Amosa+11.7
- 17James Slipper-3.3
- 18Taniela Tupou+2.1
- 19Lachlan Shaw
- 20Tom Hooper-6.0
- 21Tate McDermott+4.9
- 22Ben Donaldson+4.2
- 23Tom Wright+11.9
Ireland
- 1Tom O'Toole+9.1
- 2Dan Sheehan-9.2
- 3Tadhg Furlong+0.9
- 4Joe McCarthy-11.9
- 5James Ryan-8.4
- 6Cian Prendergast
- 7Josh van der Flier-6.9
- 8Jack Conan-2.8
- 9Jamison Gibson-Park-13.5
- 10Sam Prendergast
- 11Jamie Osborne
- 12Stuart McCloskey+4.8
- 13Garry Ringrose-5.7
- 14Jimmy O'Brien
- 15Hugo Keenan-3.3
Replacements
- 16Ronan Kelleher-7.5
- 17Jeremy Loughman
- 18Thomas Clarkson
- 19Tadhg Beirne-9.1
- 20Nick Timoney
- 21Craig Casey+4.3
- 22Ciarán Frawley
- 23Bundee Aki-3.0
Measured against the side's point-in-time rating, so opposition and venue are already removed, and over the years between a player's first and last cap rather than his side's whole history. None of the 778 players assessed has a gap larger than chance explains once the number tested is corrected for — a rating already contains the players who usually play for a side, so what a team sheet can add to it is small. Team selection is not an input to the forecast on this page. The full table and the method.
Possession and territory
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 49.0% | Possession | 51.0% |
| 44.0% | Territory | 56.0% |
Attack
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 141 | Carries | 126 |
| 455m | Carry metres | 379m |
| 10 | Clean breaks | 4 |
| 31 | Defenders beaten | 18 |
| 7 | Offloads | 7 |
| 194 | Passes | 188 |
Defence
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 153 | Tackles made | 173 |
| 81.0% | Tackle success | 79.0% |
| 18 | Missed tackles(fewer is better) | 31 |
| 10 | Dominant tackles | 10 |
| 3 | Turnovers won | 2 |
Set pieces
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 92.0% | Lineout success | 82.0% |
| 11 | Lineouts won | 18 |
| 100.0% | Scrum success | 100.0% |
| 4 | Scrums won | 1 |
Breakdown
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 99.0% | Ruck success | 98.0% |
| 114 | Rucks won | 102 |
| 1 | Mauls won | 7 |
Kicking
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Kicks from hand | 22 |
| 620m | Kick metres | 689m |
Discipline
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | Penalties conceded(fewer is better) | 10 |
| 1 | Yellow cards(fewer is better) | — |
| 4 | Knock-ons(fewer is better) | 6 |
Scoring
| Australia | Measure | Ireland |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Tries | 5 |
| 3 | Conversions | 4 |
Context beside the forecast, never inside it. Weather, team selection and match statistics are not model inputs, so a published probability does not move because any of them changed.