Five Ireland players \u2013 Paul O\u2019Connell, Peter O\u2019Mahony, Jamie Heaslip, Rhys Ruddock and Jack McGrath \u2013 broke the 24-tackle count over two games during Autumn Internationals. The choke still works. Photograph: Inpho<\/p>\n
Defensive coach says Joe Schmidt\u2019s side are working to build variation in their game<\/p>\n
Michael Cheika may not have been as magnanimous as Heyneke Meyer in defeat to Ireland but both the Australia and South Africa head coaches were of a similar mind.
\nIreland are a transparent side that play for territory, man up in defence and possess a general at outhalf who rarely misses. In the two matches Jonathan Sexton missed one from 13 shots at goal.
\nBoth Southern Hemisphere rugby gurus were correct about the defence.<\/p>\n
Enormous credit must be directed at defence coach Les Kiss and particularly five players \u2013 Paul O\u2019Connell, Peter O\u2019Mahony, Jamie Heaslip, Rhys Ruddock and Jack McGrath \u2013 who broke the 24-tackle count over two games. The choke still works. Five Ireland players \u2013 Paul O\u2019Connell, Peter O\u2019Mahony, Jamie Heaslip, Rhys Ruddock and Jack McGrath \u2013 broke the 24-tackle count over two games during Autumn Internationals. The choke still works. Photograph: Inpho Defensive coach says Joe Schmidt\u2019s side are working to build variation in their game Michael Cheika may not have been as magnanimous as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7594,5770,7086,13279,14687,15519,14097],"class_list":["post-77128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-evolution","tag-for","tag-irelands","tag-kiss","tag-les","tag-outlines","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77131,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77128\/revisions\/77131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut, as Cheika said, Ireland\u2019s is a very clear style of rugby. It\u2019s, currently, working. Not unlike November 2006. \u201cMy response to that is we\u2019re working on all parts of our game to build some variation,\u201d said Kiss. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be a one-trick pony by any means and I don\u2019t think we are………….. see more at :- http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/les-kiss-outlines-ireland-s-strategy-for-evolution-1.2016267<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"