Scrumhalf knows avenging last year’s defeat to England would add real momentum to Ireland’s Six Nations campaign
Scrumhalf knows avenging last year’s defeat to England would add real momentum to Ireland’s Six Nations campaign
“I think to get stuck into that area you have to be smart as well and realise there is risk attached, especially when the other guys are nearly double your weight. So, I suppose it’s just smart around that.” “Little bit of both,” he says of playing it as he sees it in real time and studying set-piece options. “There are loads of ways of going about it, but ultimately you get on the pitch, there is a bit of a feel, so yeah that’s where the more instinctive part of it comes into it.”
Given both of their influences, what Gibson-Park and his England opposite, Alex Mitchell, do with the extra fractions of time, will be pivotal to how the play unfolds at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. “That is one of the tricky ones. We’re probably one of the teams that would have tried to take advantage of being able to go and put pressure on the base, so that’s gone now. Obviously, we’ve had to rethink our set-ups and that. That’s all part of the evolution of the game. We’ve got a few clever guys, who are in charge of us and that helps.”
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