After a slender loss in Rome to open their marketing campaign, Gregor Townsend’s facet bounced again with victories towards England, Wales and France.
Tuipulotu says Scotland have unquestionably improved over the course of the competitors, regardless of falling brief towards Eire.
“I’ve seen what’s gone in behind the scenes and I am pleased with the boys, how they rallied this championship,” he mentioned. “We have positively made progress, there isn’t any doubt about that.”
Townsend got here beneath heavy strain after the defeat towards Italy of their opener, however he too agreed with Tuipulotu’s evaluation that it has been a optimistic event for his facet.
“The performances we have delivered, particularly the three victories, is a number of the finest rugby I’ve seen us play,” he mentioned.
“At present it is a reminder and a lesson. The lesson is that we’ve got to be higher once we do have alternatives. One other recreation for us to know what works and what we’ve got to lean into extra, double down on extra.
“There have been tactical and technical issues we wanted to enhance on, which we did within the second half and we have been going up towards a superb opponent, who have been excellent at this time.”
After final weekend’s exhilarating 50-40 victory over France, the query was whether or not Scotland might recreate such a efficiency at a venue with so many demons.
Townsend says it merely is not doable to play excellent rugby in each recreation.
“Eire are an excellent staff,” he mentioned. “They’ve a superb document right here towards just about each staff.
“If you would like an ideal efficiency each week, you are residing in fantasy land. We performed some wonderful rugby nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to win.”
