O'Sullivan will not make immediate decision on future
LONDON (Reuters) - Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan said he would not make an immediate decision on his future after Saturday's 33-10 defeat to England reduced his side to their worst Six Nations finish in almost a decade.
Ireland finished outside the top three for the first time since 1999 and, following last year's feeble World Cup group stage exit, the coach's position after seven years in charge is in increasing peril.
"At this moment in time, I'm not making any decisions about anything," O'Sullivan told a news conference after his side suffered their third championship defeat of the campaign at Twickenham.
"What we always do after every tournament is I'll meet with the IRFU (Irish Rugby Football Union) and discuss the bigger picture."
Solitary home victories over Italy and Scotland will offer little solace but the coach, who signed a new four-year contract on the eve of the World Cup, said he still had the support of the IRFU.
"I've always had the support of the IRFU, as long as I've been in the job I was always given 110 percent support in anything I've done...in how we built the team, how we built everything around it."
O'Sullivan, who lost Denis Leamy (shoulder), Geordan Murphy (calf) and most seriously David Wallace (leg) to injury during the defeat, said he was still the man to lead the team forward.
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