Hooker awaiting scans on a foot injury as Farrell concedes the victorious performance against England was mixed
Farrell and his assistants are likely to make some, if not wholesale, changes to what was close to a full-strength side against England featuring a dozen players making their first start of the season. He’s also mindful of the two-week break to Ireland’s opening pool game against Romania in Bordeaux.
“I thought we played some good rugby at times, some ‘clunky’ stuff again. Certainly dropping the ball at the line under pressure seems to be a start-of- the-season type of thing, dealing with that type of stuff where you are right at the line and you know you are going to be hit and people snatching at it rather than having soft hands. There was a bit of that going on.
While delighted with the performances of his back three, Ireland’s lineout wobbled untypically under pressure, and were again pinged for double banking, although James Ryan pointed out that he was cleverly manoeuvred into that position by Maro Itoje.“I thought it was a good day for us, for our learning,” said Farrell. “England have a fantastic lineout defence, there is no getting away from that, so all credit to them.
“It was a point we looked at as forwards heading into the game today,” said Ryan. “Steve Borthwick is one of the best lineout coaches in the world and their lineout drive is a huge part of their game. It was the same when he was coaching Leicester, it was very disappointing to concede that maul try here during the Six Nations so we definitely didn’t want to concede one today.
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