How the Irish national Rugby union team should play against teams from Southern Hemisphere

#5 Patroling own 22 very well:

There should always be at least 2, preferably 3 players near the 22. The outside center and the fullback especially, can not afford to go up too often and they would have to protect the defense. Robbie Henshaw, their brilliant outside center, is very good at going up but he has to stay in his half most of the times and let Gary Ringrose, their no.12, make the attacks.

The wingers too, can not afford to spend too much time attacking. The likes of Jacob Stockdale should have an occasional go, but they should fall back quickly to protect the wings.

Stockdale did score an incredible 7(seven) tries in the six nations and is an amazing new talent, but he did not quite face the same offensive threat there as he is likely to experience against the southern teams, especially New Zealand. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa do have some amazing wingers who have the ability to destroy any team with their try-scoring prowess. The Irish defense should be on permanent guard against any such threats.