Andy Farrell: ‘It’s the make-up of this team that even with the type of performance in the first half, we hung in there
‘Craig Casey was one of a number of injury concerns for Ireland after their defeat to South Africa. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/InphoAndrew Porter suffered a hand injury but returned to the pitch, while debutant and try scorer Jamie Osborne suffered a blow to the leg. The 22-year-old fullback remained confident that he would be available. Bundee Aki was limping too in a dressing room that felt the full physical rigours of a gladiatorial contest.
“In fact, it’s the make-up of this team and history would say it, that even with the type of performance in the first half, we hung in there; we don’t go away. There are plenty of teams that would have been under the pump in the first half like that and then seen the game run away fromthem in the second half.
“I think discipline cost us, the penalty count wasn’t outrageous but the way we put pressure on ourselves, relieved pressure for them is what we need to address. There’s some great learnings from the first half that we put right in the second half, we weren’t clinical enough when we had chances on the Springboks line.
“We’ll go through the right channels and make sure we do things properly. Lucky, unlucky? That’s the game.” “You’ll make your own decision on whether he still had the ball in his right hand or whether the ball hit him as he threw the ball back into the field and his foot was in touch. That’s for us all to debate,” he said after a TMO review adjudicated that he had kept the ball alive rather than put his foot in touch.
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