PHYSICALITYThe Autumn Nations Cup began with the words, captured by a documentary film crew, of Rassie Erasmus labelling Ireland as softies. Scotland will come gunning for the Irish at ruck time and Ireland will need to match fire with fire, with Andy Farrell sending out his big guns to get the job done. And after started brightly against the Georgians it was more of the same frustration in the second half. Ireland need to be less predictable at the line and in contact and put into practice what we’re told they’ve been progressing with on the training field. VICTORYIt sounds blindingly obvious but consider the situation if Scotland manage their first win in Dublin in a decade this afternoon.

Source: Irish Examiner December 05, 2020 08:00 UTC