Cian Tracey

It was really encouraging.

So I'm optimistic that it will be the turning point.

I think the way the fixtures have fallen now, it's pretty nice.

I mean, we'll get on and talk about Wales.

But this Friday is a good opportunity to build on what we saw at Twickenham with new faces coming in with a point to prove.

I think it's a really good opportunity to get a bit of confidence back in the scrum because that would still be a major concern for me.

And then you look at what's coming down the line in the summer when they're going to play Australia over there.

They're going to play in Eden Park against New Zealand and they're going to play against Japan.

So,

Like, it's so fickle, isn't it?

The way it just turns on one performance.

But it was a performance that was, from an Irish point of view, immense.

And like to go to Twickenham and to put a record score on an England team who, before the previous week, were a cock-a-hoop on their unbeaten run.

Borthwick talking about, you know, Grand Slam party in Paris on the last day of the season.

So I think that it could turn out to be the turning point in this current

current cycle, but obviously time will tell, but I'm definitely glass half full.

If he lost this game in Rome, I think his job would come under massive scrutiny.

We've already seen teams change their coaches late in the World Cup cycle.

Look at Rassi Rasmus, most famously.

Obviously, the All Blacks have done it at the moment.