Green machine will need to concentrate and take chances against dangerous Scottish outfit
was never quite like this. For Scottish rugby, 10 successive defeats to Ireland must stick in their craw. As kick-off nears at a long sold-out Murrayfield and Flower of Scotland reverberates around the ground, Ireland will not encounter a team more desperate and motivated to beat them now.
In any event, England pulled the Irish defence out of shape with their counterattacking last week and created holes in ultimately scoring three tries. Ireland will need to be more switched on against this dangerous Scottish team. Even so, the Irish interim head coach was also part of the team beaten 32-10 on his first visit to Murrayfield in the foot-and-mouth rearranged game in September 2001. It was Ireland’s only defeat of that championship.
“We just know we have to be better than we were last weekend in a lot of areas because of the threats that they have in their team and their ability in particular to play attacking rugby, and also the way they can stop teams playing as well.” Also noting O’Mahony’s impact on the group, Easterby added: “That for me has been one of his biggest strengths, how over a period of time he’s cut the bullshit and just gone, ‘This is what I am, I’m going to be myself and I’m going to add as much as I can to this group’.”
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