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Exiles prop Ben Franks wants to match the good second half performances across a whole match. According to Franks, Irish's performances in the second half of matches this season have been much better than the first half, something he wants to rectify. "In the last three games the second half has opened up," Franks told Â鶹Éç Radio Berkshire's Adam Williams. "That first twenty, thirty minutes is where the real heat is. "We need to do a lot better in that area." And Franks thinks that in the Premiership, compared to the Championship, the tiny mistakes are punished more often. "The physicality in the Championship was just as much, or sometimes even more than the Premiership. "But the skill level is another level up...especially a team like Northampton Saints, they only need one or two chances and they'll punish you."