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Published 16:02 6 Feb 2017 GMT
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"For me, his service... He passed an awful lot without taking a whole lot out of the ball. When he runs, he is a threat to those in and around the ruck. "If you are worried about a sniping 9, the guard and shield defenders [at the ruck] are kept a little bit honest and then he can offload to Sean O'Brien, CJ Stander and Jamie Heaslip. Conor passed a lot from the base and didn't run a lot. The lads ended up running into a wall. You can defend one-out runners all day. It's very easy when you are not worried about the 9 making a run."Former Leinster and Ireland flanker Kevin McLaughlin points out that Paddy Jackson, Murray's half-back partner, would have been used to playing alongside the sniping Ruan Pienaar at Ulster and expected the same against Scotland.
McLaughlin also shed some light on why Jackson was sitting back deeper and deeper in the pocket during a worrying first half against the Scots.
"They had Jackson on the back-foot almost every single time. If you look back on the game, they were firing a defender out of the line every single time. A guy was going out of the line and going at Jackson. He got deeper and deeper as the game went on, which obviously stifled Ireland's game."
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