[2020 Autumn Nations Cup] Ireland vs Scotland (05/12/20)

[big ginger 8]

The most encouraging passage of attack in Ireland's entire autumn campaign

The sequence leading to Duncan Taylor’s yellow card gave us a glimpse of what Ireland are trying to do.

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[Groundhog]

Only watching the second half now. Pretty encouraging performance in a few aspects. Doris was exceptional and ruled the gainline. Keenan was very positive too. Thought O'Mahony was really good carrying and Earls with the two tries obviously. Would happily have him at 7 for Munster to accommodate Stander and Coombes given our other 7 options rn. Porter as well was exceptional carrying and scrummaging given how much he's played. He absolutely mullered the Scottish 17 at the scrum on 70 minutes. Mixed from Stockdale again. Fumbled some easy takes, but he's a great athlete to have at 15 and his boot is very nice too.

As a team our rucking was way better. We actually counterrucked a bit and were ruthless cleaning them out at times.

Don't think we will look back on the window with too much fondness but we ended with probably out best performance . Definitely looked way better with the ball than we have before. Think Hensgaw made a big difference to the side too.