Fiona Hayes

It's just my personal opinion when I looked at it and

I taught Dorothy I'll give you examples I taught Dorothy Wall was having the game of her life I taught Cliona Maloney I think we could have dragged another 10 minutes out of her she was absolutely everywhere in saying that the bench could have come on and that could have been the turning point of a game so that's your job as a coach to make those decisions but

for me the girls that were playing i i thought they were on a different level and they hadn't played at that high intensity and for maybe 50 55 minutes it was too early for me if you got them over the 60 65 minute mark i think the bench could have sprung on and made that impact and but on the other hand your your high performance you're at an international level people that are coming on you

in general, will add to the game.

And it's not that they didn't.

I just felt that the French smelt a little bit of blood when there was a couple of errors and probably a couple of soak tackles as well went in.

We were so physical in that first half when they started to soak tackles, when they started to get over the game line and get that quick ball.

France were like, yes, we're on top here.

And they really, really went after Ireland.

I'm good, Owen.

Looking forward to the weekend.

There will be now provinces playing and obviously the women's Six Nations as well.

So jam-packed.

Yeah, you know what, Owen?

I think it's good for the bodies to rest for that week.

Obviously, your mind is ready and you want to go, but the girls have played, you know, three games.

They had England away and then France away, obviously, the last game.

So I feel like that the week off probably has stood to them, even though at the time when you're talking to them, when they came back from France on the Sunday, I met a few of them up at the AIL finals.

They were just itching to go and get out and wrong those rights.

or sorry right those wrongs excuse me but look I feel like they needed to go review things and see where it really went wrong because you can go in a week and it's jam packed but when you have that down week I think it gives you time to really look at the analysis and I suppose really look at yourself from a standpoint of being in a game just before half time to that final score and how it finished