Six Nations 2023: How Ireland can improve even further

It’s an essential process that underpins the continual development of a team, challenging players to make better choices. The first of those moments begins with an Ireland lineout maul on six minutes, which the French prise apart. Peter O’Mahony rescued the ball, Caelan Doris gave his team a positive gainline and 90 seconds later, the home side had a ruck a couple of metres from the French line.

Instead, Conor Murray hits Andrew Porter but his pass is slightly high and at the inside shoulder, forcing the prop to check for an instant. And even though he drove over the line, Cyril Baille, assisted by Antoine Dupont and Gregory Alldritt, managed to hold Porter, so to speak. The consolation was that Ireland scored the game’s first try, through Hugo Keenan, less than a minute later.

Murray, sharp and alive, is denied principally by Baille’s headlock tackle; 60 seconds later Ireland have a five-on-three in the backs but once again take on France’s massed fringe defence. Murray then does brilliantly to rescue a ball that shoots out from a ruck and make it over the line only to be denied by Charles Ollivon’s tackle.

When Jack Conan snaffled a loose ball at a French lineout, Tom O’Toole made inroads, Ryan coming on to the ball at pace, got over the gainline but Rónan Kelleher was thwarted as he drove over the line. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but it did illustrate a couple of recurring issues that Ireland had with their attacking shape.

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