Ireland must 'understand what 100% looks like'

More from Ireland scrum coach John Fogarty, speaking to reporters on Tuesday before Saturday's Six Nations game against Italy in Dublin (14:10 GMT).

On Ireland's main focus this week:

"I think understanding what 100% looks like, understanding what our standard is. That's really important. If I walk past something in the scrum and skip over it, the players can accept that as normal. It's unbelievably important they understand what our standard is and what they're capable of and there's a bit to that.

"Then owning and understanding and trying to figure out why they didn't deliver in the first half. In every aspect, we're going through certain images that don't look great and trying to contrast that with the standard to make it easier to understand what we need to do to get better.

"That's happening across attack, defence, kicking, scrum, maul, line-out to make sure we're clear. Driving clarity across the playing group, that's where we're at."

On the Italian scrum:

"Massively [impressed]. Italy played South Africa before we did and Italy took a couple of penalties off them, they shoved South Africa off their own ball which is no easy task.

"I think South Africa were fired up coming over here because of what Italy did to them. Italy turned Australia over at scrum time and got five penalties out of Scotland. Unbelievably connected, compact scrum that is committed as a group.

"I'm a rugby fan. I loved watching that game [against Scotland]. It was tight, the conditions and you saw a team dig it out and everyone loves that.

"They play for each other massively and we can see that clearly in the scrum. We need to be clear on the threats but also double down on what worked for us in France.

"We need to do things our way. In the past, we've looked at other scrums and been distracted by what they can do. We've really started to look at ourselves and we're in an OK place."