Ireland have 'built up nicely' ahead of Springboks test says Simon Easterby

“We'll be looking to implement a lot of the stuff that you'll have seen over the last couple of years in what we do on Saturday," said the defence coach.

Easterby and Tadhg Beirne and Stuart McCloskey during an Ireland rugby squad training session at Complexe de la Chambrerie in Tours, France. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Ireland believe they possess multiple ways of winning Test matches and will use of any one of them to get the job done against South Africa on Saturday night.

The biggest challenge of their World Cup campaign is looming when Grand Slam winners Ireland meet defending champions South Africa at Stade de France in a highly anticipated sell-out Pool B clash in northern Paris but Andy Farrell’s squad have been building incrementally for this challenge in order to plot their passage to the quarter-finals and beyond.