Hannah O'Connor

So that clinical edge is definitely something and we've seen it against England and France, even in this, in this competition that we lacked at times.

If you don't take your chances, if you, if you're missing one in three, sometimes that proves to be too much.

So,

You can bet that those fine margins they would have been talking about in the team run, and it's probably accurate that they would talk about it in post-match stuff, that those are particularly pleasing.

Whereas they mightn't be as spectacular to watch in terms of the build-up, it comes from a lot of grit and making the right decisions at the right time and execution of the smallest of skills to get across the line and add another five onto the board.

So it all counts in a very, very important way.

It was a mixture of like now two sides of it.

Ireland's defence improving over time, but also Scotland were pretty poor in the attack.

They just couldn't live with the line speed and the pressure that Ireland are putting on them.

And I think that's something that's been really, really striking from watching Ireland in this campaign is how they've gone after the ruck.

Like over the last few years, you might've seen Ireland with the mentality of two man hit and bounce your feet and fan out or two man hit one person bounce and have a go of the ruck if it's there.

But when you put the likes of Aaron King, Aoife Wafer and Brittany Hogan into a back row, they're always going to have a dip.

The same with Cliona Maloney, McDonald, Elle Perry, even your front rowers.

You know, the energy to get back to your feet is a big input is put on that, that your second efforts, that if you're making that tackle, you better believe that it's going to be noted if you're not getting to your feet and hitting through that ruck.

So I think that's been really striking to see because it's meant the likes of the teams that we played at home who are below us really now in terms of where they're at, that

Italy Scotland and Wales failed to live with that sheer pressure coming on their ruck ball of being able to have quick quick service to their 10 to be able to just play on the front foot Ireland really weren't letting that happen and we kept seeing that we saw really uncharacteristics like Chloe Raleigh was aimlessly kicking kicks down field we saw a few skewed from the boot of Helen and Nelson who were their most most capped and probably most experienced players but sheer sheer pressure from Ireland has to be noted and due credit given to it in terms of both

The defensive pressure and just work right off the ball all goes hand-in-hand with giving Ireland room to breathe then and be able to, as you said, make 22 entries, have the ball for most of the game and just dominate the territory and the possession.

You know, the next best of them is probably looking at England, who have rotated a lot.

And that's what you see, like England through injury, maybe whatever, have the likes of Maddy Feonati and Marley Packer.

But both are offering quite similar in what they're offering.