Conor Murray acknowledges Ireland’s record-breaking profitable run and spectacular achievements below Andy Farrell will depend for little or no on the Rugby World Cup.
Ireland journey to France as Six Nations Grand Slam champions and having topped the world rankings for greater than a 12 months on the again of their historic tour triumph in New Zealand.
Farrell’s males made it 13 consecutive victories with Saturday night’s 17-13 success over Samoa in Bayonne – bettering the 12-game profitable streak loved below Joe Schmidt throughout 2017 and 2018.
Defeat within the first Test towards the All Blacks in July 2022 was Ireland’s final loss and simply considered one of two suffered of their earlier 27 outings.
Scrum-half Murray is getting ready for his fourth World Cup and is aware of the event is a “different animal”.
“We’re in a pretty good place, given where we have been over the last two years and what we have achieved,” he mentioned.
“We by no means get carried away with ourselves. We know going into each recreation that we’ve to respect the opposition.
“It (type) going right into a World Cup doesn’t depend for a lot. You must carry your greatest rugby whenever you get to the event, when the competitors kicks off for actual.
We know the place we are able to go as a gaggle, the arrogance is de facto excessive.
Conor Murray
“But we know how good the team can be. We also know how hard we have to work to get to that level and be there every week.
“The summer series was good and people got hit outs and we feel match fit now, but it’s a different animal by the time the World Cup comes around.
“We know where we can go as a group, the confidence is really high.”
Murray claimed a vital attempt as Ireland stuttered previous Samoa on a soggy night in south-west France, with the overwhelming majority of a vocal sold-out crowd supporting their opponents.
The 34-year-old believes the expertise will likely be useful shifting ahead, with hosts France a possible quarter-final opponent, if Ireland efficiently negotiate a gaggle containing reigning world champions South Africa, Scotland, Tonga and Romania.
“Along that road we’re going to have games when things don’t go perfectly and we have to find a way,” he mentioned.
“The World Cup could be like that and probably will be like that, it won’t go perfectly.
“There’s going to be nights like this (Samoa), the atmosphere was really hostile, in a good way, but we’re going to have to deal with that kind of thing as well.
“We know how much pressure there’s going to be, how the atmospheres are going to be.”
Ireland acquired a well timed reminder of the hazards of South Africa after their Pool B rivals emphatically dispatched New Zealand 35-7 on Friday night.
Murray beforehand labored with Springboks head coach Jacques Nienaber and his assistant Felix Jones at Munster.
“We know what they’re like,” he mentioned of South Africa.
“You could say New Zealand were poor but I thought South Africa put them under so much pressure it made them make mistakes.
“A lot of us have been coached by Jacques and Felix and we know what’s coming. Well, we think we know what’s coming, Jacques is always going to pull something out of nothing and something you didn’t expect.
“We’ve been watching South Africa and everyone else for a long time. I’m sure they will feel really good about where they’re at because that was a really good New Zealand side and they made them look not so good.”
