The uncomplicated message for Sheehan and Ireland? Go out and win the game

'I think we're all aware of the different little permutations, but our job is to go out and win a game,' Dan Sheehan said yesterday.

CLEAR AND SIMPLE: Dan Sheehan poses for a portrait during an Ireland Rugby media conference. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

The message for Ireland this week as they target their World Cup showdown with Scotland this Saturday night will be simple - just go out and win.

While the rugby communities of three nations descend into a morass of permutations as Pool B reaches its climax, Ireland’s Dan Sheehan has revealed that the precise requirements of what his team need against the Scots at Stade de France will be kept strictly on a need to know basis.