Rory Best: 'Basically almost everything we talked about doing we didn’t do'

For captain Best it was a defeat of Ireland's own making.

Sat, 04 Feb, 2017 - 19:02

By Simon Lewis in Murrayfield.

Rory Best and Joe Schmidt blamed an awful first half that saw sluggish Ireland carved apart by Scotland on the way to an opening RBS 6 Nations defeat on Saturday.

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