‘I think it comes down to the small details we need to get right ourselves. We’re already looking to fix that,’ says 26-year-old hooker
Ireland's Rónan Kelleher with ball in hand makes valuable ground against South Africa in last weekend's first Test. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/InphoThe ruck and the ruckus that ensued sounds like the opening line to a one-act play and who knows, someday, it might hold that status. For now, though, it references a moment in
“Unfortunately, I hit the deck. But, yeah, I didn’t know at the time I was on the ground playing it.” The margin was minuscule, and he was ridiculously unlucky, but there isn’t a trace of self-pity. Kelleher won’t dwell on the issue in keeping with the general tone of Ireland’s post-game review where the focus was very much on improving performance glitches.
“As a whole, we’ll have to improve on that, at times in the game it went well and then it dropped off a touch at times,” he said. “So, it’s just about nitpicking through those little details we might have got wrong or weren’t accurate with and try to right those wrongs.” “It helps that it’s their ball as well, and once they see they’ve won that initial punch they can get the ball in quickly. It’s a knock-on effect of a lot of things and I think it comes down to the small details we need to get right ourselves. We’re already looking to fix that.”
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