“Sometimes you get a performance and it leads you into a false dawn. It’s good, especially off the back of a win to get into the bones of it, to dig down deep and see what the reality is.”
The Fijians’ first try, superbly executed, was helped by the lack of urgency and organisation in the Irish defence, which became too bunched. Of the 13 players on their feet in the defensive line, the penultimate defender, Robbie Henshaw, was stationed on the kick-off spot.
Ireland could only translate over eight minutes in the opposition 22 into five tries, losing their way between the 25th and the hour mark when failing to score a point. In the last 35 minutes against 14 men, and ten of those were against 13, Ireland only outscored Fiji by 14-7. There were some positives. The dynamic Timoney had a strong all-round game. Tadhg Beirne had plenty of good involvements. Treadwell backed up the hard-carrying games of Stuart McCloskey and the back-row by making ten strong carries for 54 metres, besting four defenders, in his 66 minutes on the pitch.
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