Tadhg Beirne was hard on himself over a couple of English steals last weekend.
They have won 92% of their lineouts according to Opta, which leaves them level with England at the top of the charts.The Irish lineout ran at a 100% success rate in their first two games against France and Italy before Wales applied more pressure and Ireland dropped to 86%, a number that doesn’t factor in three scrappy Irish wins.
“We kind of went away from it defensively a little bit from what we’d been doing, which was tough to watch back, frustrating,” said Beirne. There is a hyper-focus on Ireland’s lineout in this Six Nations because it was an area where they struggled at times in the World Cup last year. Forwards coach Paul O’Connell runs this area of the game and will have been working tirelessly to make improvements.
“Maybe I shouldn’t have made that call, I probably could have went to an easier call, but sometimes you want to back our drill and that’s what I did, but it was the wrong decision.
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