Scotland should harness the “emotional depth” of attempting to topple Eire for the primary time in eight years when the edges meet within the Six Nations on Sunday, in line with Irish legend Gordon D’Arcy.
The Scots have received simply one in all their previous 15 matches towards Eire, in 2017 below Vern Cotter, and have misplaced 10 in a row.
Gregor Townsend’s facet opened their marketing campaign with a bonus-point win over Italy at Murrayfield, with Eire doing likewise towards England in Dublin.
D’Arcy says Scotland want to make use of the ache of that lengthy winless run to gas a giant efficiency.
“The Scottish crew discuss this week, it writes itself, would not it?” D’Arcy informed the BBC’s Scotland Rugby Podcast.
“It is superbly easy and it is win at any value.
“Eire is not going to have the identical stage of emotional depth for this match as Scotland may have. If Scotland do not discover a strategy to harness that and get this one efficiency out of them, that will likely be disappointing.
“Eire, if you’ve crushed a crew X quantity of instances lately, you possibly can’t get everyone in and go, ‘we hate them, however we beat them final yr’. So you possibly can’t actually have that very same stage of hatred.
“So the motivation for Eire needs to be far more dispassionate and far more scientific and nearly methodical. What did Dennis Leamy name Leinster? Boringly environment friendly. That is the kind of efficiency that Eire want.”
