DUBLIN (AFP) – England manager Martin Johnson said his struggling side needed to make a “massive improvement” when they face France in a fortnight's time after a 14-13 Six Nations loss to Ireland.

Ill-discipline again cost England dear, with the sin-binnings of veteran prop Phil Vickery and replacement scrum-half Danny Care taking their yellow-card count to an extraordinarily high 10 in four matches.
Just as happened in their 23-15 loss last time out to Wales, England's penchant for playing a man down proved a handicap they could not overcome.
And while England attack coach Brian Smith had criticized Jonathan Kaplan's handling of the Wales game, Johnson absolved another South African referee in Craig Joubert of all responsibility for this defeat.
France will arrive at Twickenham on March 15 buoyed by a 21-16 victory over Wales in Paris on Friday which ended the reigning champions' hopes of back-to-back Grand Slams.
“We said before the game, it was one those games where France will come and play because everything seems to be against them,” said Johnson.
“They didn't have a 10 and some of their guys had played on Sunday (for their clubs). But we'd knew they come out and play with passion.
“We've got 15 days before we play France and we need to improve our rugby side and our discipline side needs to be massively improved.”
Johnson took charge of the England team in November with no record of managing or coaching at senior level, albeit his leadership qualities were a key factor in helping his country win the 2003 World Cup.
Defeat by Ireland meant England had lost five of his seven games in charge so far, with their only wins coming against the Pacific Islanders - effectively a scratch team - and Italy, whose defeat by Scotland on Saturday cemented their current status as the weakest team in the Six Nations.
Johnson has repeatedly stressed the need for improved discipline but his words appear to be having little effect and now England, one of the world's wealthiest rugby nations both in terms of finance and depth of playing resources, find themselves a lowly fourth in the Six Nations table.
Asked whether he needed to say something different ahead of the France game, second-row great Johnson replied: “There is no different message. The facts are the facts. We've just got to keep working at it.”
Care's dismissal with 10 minutes to go for a totally avoidable push on Ireland prop Marcus Horan was especially reckless.
At that stage England, thanks to penalties by Toby Flood and Delon Armitage, were in touch at 11-6 down with Ireland's points having come courtesy of a Ronan O'Gara penalty and a drop-goal and a try from captain Brian O'Driscoll.
But Care's failure to live up to his surname enabled O'Gara to stretch Ireland's lead to 14-6 - two scores in front - and not even full-back Armitage's converted try with barely a minute left could rescue England.
“I said to the players, you cost yourselves the game. If you give away 18 penalties you are going to lose,” Johnson said.
“The one that really changed the game was Danny's. It was 11-6, it made it 14-6 and we had no scrum-half for 10 minutes.”
Johnson, asked if he would now be making changes to his team to counter its penalty problems, said: “It's not the same people making the same mistakes but we will talk about it.”
The Leicester legend added: “I am angry for them, not me. We have gone toe to toe with one of the better teams in Europe, a team that could win this championship. That makes it all the more frustrating.
“We didn't need to give penalties away because we weren't getting broken in defense. We have conceded one try away from home again. The defense is good, we have got to trust it.”-