‘PEOPLE WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND BLAME THE HOOKER’
you ask about (the importance of) results, that’s just a performance thing — when you get that right, perform well in the lineout and we launch off that, and suddenly the game is quite different. ‘I don’t know how many turnovers we gave them off lineout and it just made it a long day. Rory has been through things like this before and it’s only about what’s happening inside our four walls in camp and how we deal with it. ‘A lot of people will probably blame the hooker because the majority of people probably don’t understand the working parts of a lineout.’ Best was pulled from a commercial appearance in Dublin yesterday, with his cancellation cited as a result of ‘increased training commitments’ by the PR firm involved. He was not the only player forced into a change in schedule, with Murray taking the place of Tadhg Furlong at an event at Aviva Stadium. Murray confirmed he is fit and available for selection after passing all his HIA tests following a collision with Jonny May in Twickenham. However, the scrum-half is not expected to play against Wales this weekend, a decision taken before the England defeat. ‘I felt great (against England),’ added Murray. ‘For the short period that I played, I felt really good. I would have just loved to have played the full game and see where I was at. ‘Not that it’s an unknown, physically I feel great in terms of the learnings from the year. But yeah. It’s hard to say (where my form is) but I do feel great. That’s all I can say.’