Ireland Defence Coach Simon Easterby reviewedthe Quilter Nations Series win against Australia and looks ahead to the final game against World Champions South Africa at Aviva Stadium on Saturday evening.
Easterby said that they will certainly take the positives from the Australia game, but also understood that Ireland needs to get better each week, and said that he thinks Ireland has been doing that across the series of three games so far, and that’ll need to be the case this weekend against South Africa.
“You understand that they have strengths that other teams don’t have, and you’ve got to find a few weaknesses as well, so we need to be better at what we do with and without the ball. That includes our physicality, it includes the ability for us to stop a team scoring tries when they get into our 22, which we weren’t good enough at on the weekend, so that’s international rugby, and it doesn’t matter who you play, the physicality has to be a given.”
“And it’s no better challenge than South Africa coming to the Aviva on the weekend for us to see if we can put a lot of those things into practice that we’ve spoken about trying to improve on.”