Marcus Smith insists England are able to climb off the canvas for his or her shot to nothing in Dublin as they appear to keep away from one other Six Nations mismatch.
Smith views Saturday’s showdown with grand slam-chasing Ireland on the Aviva Stadium as a “free swing” on the premise nobody is giving England even a puncher’s likelihood of ruining the St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
Having crashed to a record-breaking 53-10 defeat by France at Twickenham in Round 4, they’ve been put in as 7-1 underdogs to upstage the world’s No 1-ranked aspect of their final aggressive fixture earlier than the World Cup.
Failure would see them end with simply two wins for a 3rd successive Six Nations, however Smith insists his group will come out preventing.
“We’re in a tough period at the minute and it’s perfect for us,” the Harlequins fly half stated.
“We’ve obtained to get higher shortly as a result of the problem doesn’t come a lot better than Ireland away in Dublin.
“There’s just one solution to go now and that’s to face up and combat as exhausting as we are able to and play as exhausting as we are able to for the shirt.
“We’ve spoken about sticking collectively as a result of there’s going to be quite a lot of noise and quite a lot of strain on us. We’ve obtained to develop into tighter versus splinter.
There’s just one solution to go now and that is to face up and combat as exhausting as we are able to and play as exhausting as we are able to for the shirt
Marcus Smith
“This is a big test of our togetherness as a squad and of our resolve. There’s no better week for this than a free swing at Ireland.
“Time is against us, but I believe we’ve still got time. With the characters we’ve got in the group we can turn things around very quickly.
“We’ve got a week now to right some wrongs and we’ve got to get on the same page quickly.”
France amassed seven tries as they rampaged by Twickenham, inflicting England’s heaviest defeat within the event because it was based in 1882.
“We didn’t build up in the week to lose like that,” stated Smith, whose return at fly half shortly became a nightmare as England had been pulverised within the contact space.
“We’ll look at our individual performances and team performance because, with where we want to go in the next six months and in the years ahead, that wasn’t good enough.
“We’ll work as hard as we can this week to be better, but it’s a good indicator of where we are on this journey.”
Ollie Lawrence has been dominated out of the climax to the Six Nations due to a hamstring harm, inserting Manu Tuilagi within the body to fill the emptiness at inside centre.
