Cian Tracey

And we were talking about this during the game, that surely it was time to try and throw a few different pictures at them, but they seemed so hell-bent on running over them and then backing their fitness and their bench, which did come good, but...

Yeah, and I asked Caelan Dorris about this at the captain's run purely because I was writing a piece about it that was the plan to, you know, Jameson Gibson Park to leave the team out.

And he said, oh yeah, absolutely, that's the plan.

And you could kind of see in the tunnel, Gibson Park was at the back of the queue for the players and it looked to me that Caelan Dorris was calling him to come up and he didn't fancy running out.

And I agree with you, I thought he looked...

a little nervous.

A couple of his kicks got blocked down.

He had that intercept when Ireland were camped on the Welsh line.

And look, he hit such heights against England, it was probably indicative of the team as a whole that they just weren't quite able to get back there.

But then again, they did get a bonus point win over a very much improved Welsh team.

So like I said, I do think there's plenty of positives to take as well.

But that overplaying was something that we saw against Italy as well.

That's what I'm supposed to do, isn't it?

You say about James Lowe not being there.

I don't even think that's an excuse because they have Jamie Osborne and Jacob Stockdale who both have cannons of a left foot as well.

The reason why Stockdale was picked was because he was a like-for-like replacement for James Lowe.

I just think it comes back to the tactics and the game plan that clearly the coaches and the players had worked on all week.

And like I said, because it worked for them in the opening 10 minutes, I think they almost fell in love with themselves a little bit and forgot to actually play.

Because I think back to...

The subtlety, so we saw both sides of Stuart McCloskey in the build-up to Jacob Stockdale's try, he had two huge carries where he just ran over Welsh players for fun, but then he showed the more subtle, nuanced part of his game with a lovely sleight of hand to put Jacob Stockdale through a gap and he picked a brilliant line as well.