Cian Tracey

I think I wouldn't be surprised if Bundiaki is number 23 next week just to have a bit of

fire and he'll have a point to prove as well because i think a lot of people including myself was expecting him to come back in uh tonight now that his suspension is over but again i think it was a smart call by far to keep him on ice for another week because it kind of sends out a lesson as well doesn't it to a degree i think if you know if if the game was a little bit tighter i would rather have with all due respect to tom farrell coming on for the last 10 15 20 minutes i mean last year we saw what he did in twickenham

He's such a crowd favourite.

And it's been a brilliant Six Nations this year for those reasons, hasn't it?

And it is, like you said, it is only getting better in terms of the competitiveness.

Yeah, I think so.

20 hours in the morning.

We're not in France, so we're not in France.

Yeah, I would agree with exactly what Eddie said there.

I've actually, if you bear with me, been sort of crunching the numbers a little bit because this Six Nations campaign has quietly been very different to the previous ones under Andy Farrell because he has valued cohesion generally and he's obviously leaned heavily on the Leinster side of things.

So if you think back to the France into the Italy game, he made six changes.

He made five changes for Twickenham.

It's five changes again now.

That's 16 changes, which is a hell of a lot, again, for a coach who values cohesion.

By the end of this weekend, Andy Farrell will have used 33 players.

He will have handed out 10 Six Nations debuts.

I won't list them all off.

Two full debuts to Edwin Adogbo and Nathan Doak, who's going to make his debut off the bench.

And like you said, Joe, Tom O'Toole, who is a tight end, is now going to start his first game at Loosehead.

So if you put all of that into the pot together, I totally agree with Eddie.