Not the best England Ireland game in recent times. Ireland played with no ambition at all in the first half and seemed to just want to tackle and defend. Opened up in the second half but i worry about England's defense, first up tackling wasn't the best and Ireland looked dangerous to often for my liking.
Aye, I did start worrying about that. I'm happy to write some of it off on fatigue though. The front five played a lot longer than they usually do: Cole and Itoje played the full 80, Kruis 77, and Hartley 71 minutes. Marler came off after 60 and they were a man down for 20 minutes.
Also slightly annoyed the clean sheet went with Murray's try.