Rory O'Connor

He was trying to go again, but it was over for him.

But it took bravery to stick to that defense and have trust in the players that, no, this is the system that we're running and I'm backing you guys to make the right decisions at the right time, which they did.

As regards attacking strategy, we were really brave.

You think kicking from your own half, that's international rugby.

Just do it efficiently and do it as quickly as possible.

We had the bravery to play multi-phase from our own half.

There's not many teams that are doing that.

Correct.

Yeah.

But if you're trying to be a copycat, you're never going to win consistently.

Yeah.

Totally.

And that's where as well, it's not only is it playing multi-phase, it's playing to the width.

So as a coach, you have to be able to uncover flaws in the opposition.

And sometimes it can only be the smallest chink in the armor, but you have to go all in on exposing that.

And that's where they had total confidence that they thought that they could expose England in the wide channels.

And it was just about getting it there, you know, 5, 10, 15, 20 times.

The more we can get it there, the greater our chances are of breaking them down.

But that requires bravery.

Like even we get intercepted, you know, early on in the game, you're going, oh, maybe we'll come away from that.