The Irish captain believes the clash with Samoa was useful prep for the World Cup.
Murray Kinsella Reports from Bayonne IT WAS FAR from the best Irish performance we’ve seen and there were some hairy moments as Andy Farrell’s side escaped with a win against Samoa last night, but their sense is that it was a worthwhile exercise that leaves them better prepared for the World Cup.
“Obviously there’s a few silver linings in there but we didn’t complete our game plan the way we wanted to, but at the same time we were happy to get the win.” “The physicality side of things, a good couple of times I think we fronted up well but probably we can be better on that side of things. “From a spectator point of view, I think those teams will be thoroughly exciting to watch and all the teams that play them will have to have their wits about them.”
“No, and if it did it’s probably one of the adversities that Faz would like us to be tested by,” said the Ulster lock.“The group of guys that we have, and we’ve talked about this before as a coaching staff and squad, it’s an incredibly strong group of guys and the guys who’ve been waiting to find out their fate have probably carried themselves as well as you could have expected them to throughout training.
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