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 on target for Grand Slam success as the one unbeaten facet 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 along with his kicks to the 4 tries Eire scored at Murrayfield.
“I believed the ahead pack was wonderful. I feel the assault was good,” Easterby informed the post-match press convention.
“Our set-pieces had been wonderful and it is so troublesome for a workforce to get into their rhythm once they’re getting scrappy ball when their supply of lineouts and scrums is not what they’d like.
“I feel that they, on each side of the ball, in assault and defence, laid an important platform for us.
“I believed Sam Prendergast put us in the precise areas most of the time and that’s what you want,” he added of the younger fly-half.
There was little that went incorrect for Eire within the sport.
“I believed we scrambled nicely,” Easterby stated. “We managed to show round a couple of conditions the place they received just a little 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 sport towards England final week, Eire received out of the beginning blocks shortly at Murrayfield and took eight minutes to attain their first attempt 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 sport and possibly we may have been one or two scores up,” Easterby added.
“I used to be happy with the applying of the gamers. I feel we all the time knew that we might need to 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 a variety of what we had labored on within the week round making an attempt to assault Scotland in the precise approach.”
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