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“Our game plan is based on what we want to do and that was the pleasing aspect for today, we were up against a team that are fit, but we were able to play the way we wanted to play in attack and in the first half that brought rewards,” was Gregor Townsend’s assessment of a match in which Scotland trailed at half-time because of the horrible defensive mix-up that permit and a superbly crafted second Irish try that Peter O’Mahoney and Sexton combine to release the lethal Jacob Stockdale.

“Whether against France we have to be different, France jackal a lot more in contact… but we’re not going to change the way we play the game,” Townsend continued.

Staunch in those convictions, then, he inevitably contended that it was not what Scotland had set out to do that was any part of the problem, but the failure to do it all as well as was necessary.

“It’s more the execution of those ideas, putting on myself that the plays can be run smoothly, that we have the right bodies at the breakdown and also that the right bodies are in the right positions,” he said, when asked whether new ideas were required.

“You’re always tested at Test level with games back to back that you have parts of your game that cover everything. Four out of five areas we did very well, but that one out of five is the thing we have to do much