Following a dispiriting defeat by New Zealand and an underwhelming win over Japan, Ireland were back to near their best against the Wallabies, with Mack Hansen scoring a first-half hat-trick before second-half tries from Caelan Doris, Ryan Baird and Robbie Henshaw. <\/p>\n
But Farrell insists his players must find an even better performance to deny the Boks a first win in Dublin since 2012. <\/p>\n
“I don’t think it will necessarily be enough, but I like the way that we got out of the way of ourselves,” added Farrell. <\/p>\n
“Last week, after a couple of errors we just went within ourselves a little bit and it didn’t happen this week because there were plenty of mistakes. <\/p>\n
“It’s always going to happen in Test match rugby anyway, never mind with the conditions the way they were. I suppose that’s the most pleasing part for me.”<\/p>\n
Ireland have won four of the past five encounters with South Africa, but Rassie Erasmus’ side arrive in Dublin having beaten France and Italy despite first-half red cards in both games.<\/p>\n
South Africa’s win over Six Nations champions France in Paris was especially eye-catching as they produced a stunning second-half performance to win 32-17 having trailed by a point at the break following lock Lood de Jager’s red card.<\/p>\n
Asked what he likes most about the Boks from a coaching perspective, Farrell said: “I think it’s their energy and enthusiasm, which is probably driven from a couple of points of difference, one being the defence as in line speed, one being the breakdown and the other being the set piece. <\/p>\n
“They get their energy from all of those bits because they do them really well.<\/p>\n
“They know their own DNA but they’re able to add a few tricks as well with the type of personnel they have in their armoury.”<\/p>\n
Farrell expects to have Garry Ringrose and Josh van der Flier available for selection again, but Stuart McCloskey may miss out after being forced off against Australia with a recurrence of a groin injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a dispiriting defeat by New Zealand and an underwhelming win over Japan, Ireland were back to near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-144628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}