Scotland should harness the “emotional depth” of attempting to topple Eire for the primary time in eight years when the perimeters meet within the Six Nations on Sunday, in accordance with Irish legend Gordon D’Arcy.
The Scots have gained simply one among their previous 15 matches in opposition to Eire, in 2017 underneath Vern Cotter, and have misplaced 10 in a row.
Gregor Townsend’s aspect opened their marketing campaign with a bonus-point win over Italy at Murrayfield, with Eire doing likewise in opposition to England in Dublin.
D’Arcy says Scotland want to make use of the ache of that lengthy winless run to gasoline an enormous efficiency.
“The Scottish crew discuss this week, it writes itself, would not it?” D’Arcy advised the BBC’s Scotland Rugby Podcast.
“It is fantastically easy and it is win at any value.
“Eire is not going to have the identical degree of emotional depth for this match as Scotland can have. If Scotland do not discover a option to harness that and get this one efficiency out of them, that will probably be disappointing.
“Eire, whenever you’ve crushed a crew X quantity of instances in recent times, you’ll be able to’t get all people in and go, ‘we hate them, however we beat them final yr’. So you’ll be able to’t actually have that very same degree of hatred.
“So the motivation for Eire must be far more dispassionate and far more scientific and virtually methodical. What did Dennis Leamy name Leinster? Boringly environment friendly. That is the kind of efficiency that Eire want.”
