Cian Tracey

I didn't think he was bad by any sense, but...

Yeah, and he's kind of probably going to go back to that role because he's been so good at it.

McCarthy was getting arrested today just to be tooled up for... I had to laugh while he was on the sideline waiting to come on.

He was waiting for maybe two or three minutes.

I don't know if the TV cameras picked it up, but there was a scrum and he was just like...

salivating trying to like put me out there put me to get back in because if that man loves three things it's scrums mauls and tackles like he's a pretty simple man but i couldn't agree with you more rod i think like the game plan that ireland playing we're playing today would have been tailor-made for him but i think he definitely comes back into the second row uh with james ryan and ty burn back to six with conan's impact with timmy off the bench

We train on local pitches and play in packed stadiums.

it's been a mad championship hasn't it it's been brilliant stuff it's been mad but it's been brilliant and i can't wait obviously people might be listening to this after the two games and saturday but i can't wait to watch them as well but i think just to go back to your point about when ireland won the title here a couple of years ago i think like irish rugby just got drunk on the success over the last few years by winning grand slams winning titles um

that the Triple Crown did kind of get scoffed at, I would say.

Like, didn't they win the Triple Crown in the first three games last year?

They won it in Cardiff.

Yeah, and, like, that was a complete non-event in terms of, like, oh, they just won the Triple Crown.

Like, I even had to struggle to remember that they did.

You know what I mean?

It just wasn't really a big thing, whereas...

There is something tangible now on the line that could potentially be a title as slim as that is at the moment.

But I think it'll be a huge occasion here next weekend.

The fact that Scotland are in Ireland's World Cup pool again, I know that's ages away.

But Gregor Townsend has never beaten Scotland.

And Andy Farrell will not want that record to change.