Simon Easterby was pleased with his team’s efforts as Emerging Ireland held off Western Force.
EMERGING IRELAND ARE two from two on their tour to South Africa and head coach Simon Easterby felt his young squad handled today’s meeting with Super Rugby side Western Force impressively as a burning sun made for difficult playing conditions in Bloemfontein.
“They’re a team that have been together a good while in this preseason block for them, and the majority of those players are playing Super Rugby together for the Western Force, so it’s a really big result for us as a team that’s only been together for 11 or 12 days, so it’s a really big performance.”
“We were really keen to step up, it just felt like that if we played on top of them and were connected and we were in the game as much as we could be, then we would be hard to play against, hard to defend. That showed up in those first three tries and we probably left a few out there as well.
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