FARRELL INSISTS HE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT

ED ELLIOT

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ANDY FARRELL has warned his players “if you’re standing still, you’re going backwards”.

Farrell has guided Ireland to the top of the world rankings but while he is satisfied with his team’s recent efforts, he wants to keep driving standards and not allow complacency to creep in.

“We’d be happy enough, of course, it’d be poor of me to say otherwise,” he said of the November successes over South Africa, Fiji and Australia.

“The autumn is great for us, you know?

“It certainly shows we’ve not been perfect. It’ll show us where we need to kick on and we’ll see over the next couple of months who is hungry enough to get back in the room.

“In all ways after any tournament you review everything that went on.

“If you’re standing still, you’re going backwards. Especially with the pressures we’ll have in our next games in the Six Nations, we have to adapt and keep going in all areas.”