Eire’s marauding forwards laid the platform for the dominant 32-18 win away to Scotland within the Six Nations on Sunday which saved them heading in the right direction for Grand Slam success as the one unbeaten aspect left within the event, stated interim coach Simon Easterby.
He was additionally happy with the contribution of 21-year-old fly-half Simon Prendergast, who added 12 factors together with his kicks to the 4 tries Eire scored at Murrayfield.
“I believed the ahead pack was glorious. I believe the assault was good,” Easterby informed the post-match press convention.
“Our set-pieces had been glorious and it is so troublesome for a workforce to get into their rhythm after they’re getting scrappy ball when their supply of lineouts and scrums is not what they’d like.
“I believe that they, on either side of the ball, in assault and defence, laid an excellent platform for us.
“I believed Sam Prendergast put us in the suitable areas as a rule and that’s what you want,” he added of the younger fly-half.
There was little that went mistaken for Eire within the recreation.
“I believed we scrambled effectively,” Easterby stated. “We managed to show round a couple of conditions the place they received slightly little bit of ascendancy and we saved them at arm’s size. Then we had the chance to go up the opposite finish and be medical with the ball.”
Having began slowly of their opening recreation in opposition to England final week, Eire received out of the beginning blocks rapidly at Murrayfield and took eight minutes to attain their first strive as Prendergast arrange Calvin Nash for the opener.
“Though we conceded late within the first half, I believed the scoreline was a mirrored image of our dominance within the recreation and possibly we might have been one or two scores up,” Easterby added.
“I used to be happy with the applying of the gamers. I believe we all the time knew that we would must shut them (Scotland) down and cease them getting time and area and momentum.
“I believed we actually did that with out the ball but additionally on assault I felt like we delivered plenty of what we had labored on within the week round making an attempt to assault Scotland in the suitable approach.”
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