Duggan: Irish tactics were wrong

Former Irish captain Willie Duggan is backing Ireland to bounce back from defeat to England and challenge for the RBS Six Nations Championship title.

Obviously, Ireland need England to lose one of their remaining three matches against either France, Italy or Wales but Duggan believes Ireland can put the Aviva disappointment behind them.

Duggan, who earned 41 caps between 1975 and 1984 and toured New Zealand with the Irish Lions in 1977, was regarded as one of the toughest back row forwards of his era and he was left wondering just what went wrong in Dublin on Saturday.

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