00:00It's exciting to have a game at home again, two home games on the bounce and you want to get
00:05back
00:05on the horse, you want to get back out there and play and train and stay in it. I think
00:08that's the
00:09difference in the club world is you've got another game the very next week. In international world
00:12you've got a very short period and it sits with you for a long time if you come out of
00:16that before
00:16the next period. So boys are motivated, train well. Like I said, to a man, this group of players
00:26are so hard-working and so committed and want to improve. I can assure you of that.
00:31They're a ball-playing team. I know Finn from club, so just looking forward to getting into
00:37that really. We know what they're going to bring. Edge-to-edge play, a lot of layering in
00:43their attack, so just looking out for that. For us at the minute it's just consistency
00:48and creating a platform. So anything that comes as a bonus is obviously good for us,
00:56but we're looking to just make sure that we're building in innings and making sure that we're
00:59clean so that refs can get on our side. We talk quite a lot about we want to be a
01:04team
01:05that can excite the nation and I think we're potentially a little bit inconsistent in doing
01:11that at the minute, but I think that's just, like you said, the nature of when you have
01:15sort of a new coaching team coming in. You're changing style of play. You're obviously
01:20working at it on the training ground. Sometimes it doesn't always go right on the pitch. I think
01:25on the weekend we, like that last probably 20 minutes, we come into it a bit more with
01:31our attack and we showed bits of what we're trying to do. So I think it's just like doubling
01:36down in the training week on, like I said, on what our attack principle is trying to get
01:41as many sort of reps as it as we can and then do our best to put it out on
01:45the field then
01:45on the weekends.
01:47The process, the detail, the, if we get those things right more consistently, both sides
01:53of the ball. So if we showed some really good defensive sets on the weekend, but we need
01:58to do that for much longer periods of time against an attack that can hold the ball and Scotland
02:02are very much similar. France was a very counter attack based side and we needed to get that
02:07bit right. We didn't quite get that right, obviously, and we got hurt in that area. Likewise
02:11in attack, if we can piece together the process, we can't be one week our set piece doesn't
02:17function, the next week it does. Our first three phase starter plays function one week
02:21and then they don't the next. We've got to become more consistent in those areas. I think
02:25the devil's in the detail of getting those things right more often and us as coaches and
02:30players staying in the weeds of those things, getting those things right. And then, cliche
02:34as it sounds, I think the scoreboard takes care of itself.
02:38I think we're always looking to build at the minute. I mean, I think discipline's a big
02:42one that we're trying to focus on throughout this competition. But with our attack, we're
02:48looking to be quite direct and bring a lot of layering to our attack because they kind
02:52of sit off, don't jump off, a lot of reading. So it's kind of making sure that we throw the
02:57first punch.
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