The Ireland forwards coach is confident the current squad are in a good place.
Murray Kinsella Reports from Tours IF ANDY FARRELL needed to ask anyone about how wrong World Cup campaigns can go, he could just turn to Paul O’Connell.
“One of my experiences would have been in 2007 being over-trained a little bit and probably got the hotel wrong, got the food wrong a little bit, and fuelling is such a big part of preparation so that’s a big part of it,” said O’Connell today in Tours. “Sometimes you feel like you come to a World Cup and you need to reinvent the wheel a little bit,” said O’Connell.“We want to evolve and get better for sure but it’s not about reinventing anything and those are my two lessons.
“That’s probably one of the most enjoyable things about the tour in New Zealand [last year]. Even though we took on those two extra [midweek] games and we had a tough start, I think the players were enjoying it immensely. He said unrelated errors – a simple dropped ball, a missed lineout call – can make it appear as if something is wrong with the overall lineout, but he doesn’t believe that’s the case.
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