Ireland have vastly improved under head coach Scott Bemand, but their WXV campaign has had a mixed start.<\/p>\n
They were beaten by the USA in their opener but bounced back with a win over Japan in Galway.<\/p>\n
Ireland then defeated Japan for a second game in a Test outside the WXV.<\/p>\n
South Africa have also had a mixed start as wins over Spain and Italy were followed by a heavy defeat by Wales.<\/p>\n
Ireland are playing in South Africa for the first time and are aiming to mark the occasion with a historic win.<\/p>\n
For Wall and Ireland, it is not just about winning but in the manner that they do it.<\/p>\n
“We’re very much process-driven, so results on any given day, it kind of comes back to the process of what we’re trying to do. <\/p>\n
“I think we’re looking for wins, but more gratifying wins, in a way, that we aren’t leaking tries in defence, or taking opportunities when they come. <\/p>\n
“Maul definitely was a big focus for us, and just taking opportunities and finishing those opportunities.”<\/p>\n
Wall notes the physicality of the South Africans, and says their scrum is “incredibly dominant”.<\/p>\n
Despite that, she believes “our set piece and our line-out are better”.<\/p>\n
“Our kicking game, especially with Dannah [O’Brien], is very influential on how we play, and I think we’re a very fit team,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Those attributes will definitely be used to hopefully beat the South Africans in the next two games.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland have vastly improved under head coach Scott Bemand, but their WXV campaign has had a mixed start.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-663969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663969","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=663969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}