I never thought I would be quoting former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a framework to analyse Ireland’s meeting with New Zealand in Chicago on Saturday. But here we go…
“We know there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know ... it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.”
This twisted piece of language is known as “The Rumsfeld Matrix”. Rumsfeld was trying to describe the possibility that in 2002 Saddam Hussein was holding weapons of mass destruction.
If we apply the Rumsfeld Matrix to this week’s match then we know that we know the New Zealanders have emerged from the most spectacular Rugby Championship ever staged with a 4-2 winnin
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