Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game
Yeah, I think if you compare it to a boxing match, which there's plenty of similarities with rugby, we didn't really throw a punch for the first 50 minutes.
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game
Then you're looking at a try losing bonus point, potentially two losing bonus points, which, as Andy Farrell mentioned, post-game is really important in this competition.
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game
20-odd points down on points difference, that's a really poor start to the competition and it's left us an absolute mountain to climb to try and get as high up that table as possible.
Ireland's dark night in France | Confused defence, poor passing & the kicking game
you're not necessarily going to get the same amount of turnovers as a poached threat team, a team that's just looking to target the ball on the ground.