‘We’re not clinical, that’s killing us’

IRELAND coach Declan Kidney insists his team will continue to play a high risk, fast tempo, style of rugby, despite a galling loss to France in yesterday’s Six Nations clash at the Aviva Stadium.

For the second successive week, Ireland’s errors were in the unacceptably high category but Kidney insisted his team are still on the right track. “They (mistakes) are uncharacteristic but it shows there is a big step up between test rugby and Heineken Cup and Magners League level.

“What we need to do is to keep playing this way and get used to it at test level, because I believe it is the right way forward for us. There is no point in crawling away and trying to play a damage limitation game; that won’t get us anywhere, it’s not going to win us anything at the end of the day, we just need to get better at doing what we are doing.