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10 Apr, 2025
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Dorothy Wall makes no apologies for Ireland setting out their stall to beat - not just contain - England
@Source: irishmirror.ie
Dorothy Wall had promised Ireland fans that this resurgent team are aiming to defeat England, not just try and keep the score down, in Virgin Media Park, Cork, on Saturday."We’re really up for it, we are at home in Munster and it’s going to be passionate," says back/second-row who has confirmed she will be staying at Exeter next season. This whole week there has been great energy, we train hard and we are having fun as well."Every meeting we are talking about it, what we have to do and you’re nearly getting up for it, and every meeting you nearly have to bring yourself down so you’re not too stimulated the whole time. READ MORE: Women's Six Nations: Ireland simply superb, something's brewing - One F in Foley READ MORE: A Star is Born: Ireland's rugby no8 Aoife Wafer is about to set our sports world on fire - One F in Foley “There has been huge investment in the Celtic Cup here and every year it gets better, there is improvement. We have great coaches in each province and the girls are really well-propped after that competition.“You see the likes of Niamh O’Dowd who has been an outstanding player for us at loosehead, she has really worked her way from the bottom up. She is an example of what this competition can do for players." This is a message being similarly pushed by Ireland coach Scott Bemond. "It’s about building more momentum moments," he insists. "Imagine they get two shots in our 22, in a World Cup year winning those games that are knock-out rugby you’re going to need to survive a couple of shots in your 22, any good team is going to get in there at some point, they’re going to make a line-break. "You look at Italy, Italy are a well-coached team. They made line breaks but we managed to contain it so you need to survive moments. "You’ve got to be able to withstand pressure and when we get our moments execute against pressure which was probably the bit that was missing against France. "We had opportunities, we didn’t get the scores we wanted. We think over the last year we’ve been growing what we can do in that space. Probably why we were disappointed with the France piece to be honest but managed to turn that around against Italy. We didn’t have stacks more opportunities than them, we were just a bit more clinical with them." Let get clinical says the coach. "So against the good teams we know that we’re going to get those opportunities, we just got to make more of them. "It's not just around containing them, it's about us firing shots on our terms as well and we’re in a much better place now than we were. We want to be hard to beat, stopping them getting the possession they want on their terms is a big part of that. "Defensively, we’re getting better all the time. Attack-wise, we’ll get moments and we need to execute against that. We’ve been focusing on bits so that we’re not under pressure and bits where we need to get scoreboard pressure on them and then executing that." The Irish Mirror has a rugby WhatsApp group where you can get breaking news and top stories straight to your phone. Click here to join. You can leave our group at any time if you don't like it.
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