Gregor Townsend wants perspective after the loss of Scotland in Scotland from Ireland – Irvine Times

After an encouraging autumn campaign, the Scots entered the championship with high hopes to end in the first two for the first time this century.

But the demoralizing defeat on Sunday in the hands of an Irish country, pursuing the third consecutive title, brought a familiar sense of deflation about Townsend and its players after they spoke wide in recent months of progress they thought they had reached after 36-14 World Cup Stage of the pool by the same opponents in Paris in October 2023.

“No, I don’t do it,” said the chief coach when he asked him if he felt the 11th consecutive defeat from Ireland, he left Scotland “back on a square” in his quest to become real contenders for the title.

“The result was big and I know this, boys (journalists),” to talk about this game, but we need to look a little longer and where we were.

“After this game against Ireland, we changed a lot in the World Cup, who we choose, who we are as a team, and this was done with the players. Our next game we played a different type of rugby against Wales.

“We have continued this, we have added bits to him, and since then we have been really competitive. It was probably our most striking performance, a defeat to say, since Ireland, but it happens from time to time. If this had to happen in the next two or three games, I would be much more concerned.

“This is a one -time game and you must have a context. We play a tournament in which you have to play five games and if you start overdoing what happened in a game, you lose sight of what you were building. Before the match, I said that the damage we had against Ireland had shaped who we were.

“A little changed how we played and this was transferred to other performances. This time you did not transfer well enough, but you need to take out the learning from your game.

“No one is more scared by me, that today we were unable to go two of two and we were unable to defeat Ireland. But they have deserved to win and we have to be sure that this game, and in the last four or five we have played are part of what we are next when we play. “

Townsend admitted that it “will be difficult” for Scotland – who have trips to England and France on both sides of a home match against Wales – to return to the title dispute after the defeat on Sunday.

“We have lost the number two team in the world that goes to the third title,” he said. “If you accept it like that, you go” well, it would be a shock “if we had won. I think it would be a large -scale shock. They were clear favorites, but we believed we could win and worked hard to win.

“The game of our next opponent (England) would always be difficult (regardless of the result of Ireland). We don’t have a brilliant record there, it’s a very difficult place to play, but we have a very good record lately. They just got off the back of winning a great game against France.

“We know how difficult each game is in the six nations. Obviously, we have to play a lot better next time to have a chance to bounce with a win. “

TownSend said Cam Cam Redpath Cam Cam Redpath and Edinburgh Ben Rower Ben Muncaster can get into a dispute after they have launched the championship by injury, but Glasgow supports Kyle Stein and Adam Hastings.

The key duo Finn Russell and Darcy Graham will continue to be evaluated after head injuries they received against Ireland, the latter being released from a hospital on Sunday night.