Cian Tracey

And I thought his body language, we spoke a bit about this in our video yesterday, wasn't it?

his tone at the team announcement press conference on Tuesday, of course it's not Saturday today, was just a little, it wasn't quite as kind of rousing, you know, we're in the World Cup, this is the big boy stuff.

It was more, I think, realistic because I think deep down he knew that to pull off what would have been a remarkable upset would have required so many things to go right for Ireland and things to go wrong.

for France.

And when Ireland scored their second try and then they had the potential Ronan Kelleher try chalked off, like fairly so, whatever, that could have been 29-21.

And the atmosphere was starting to slightly shift.

I know France still had Ireland at arm's length, but really fine margins.

And we said it yesterday, if they'd come away with a losing bonus point, it would have been a miracle.

And that did, like that late try, look, on balance, it was probably a fair reflection of the game, but it did put a bit of gloss on the scoreline for them at the end.

And look, I think we should have probably said at the very start, some of the rugby that France played.

At times, it was like they were playing a different sport.

It's the pace that they do everything at.

That's in their DNA, but to plug it and out half Matthew Jadiber into that team, I just thought some of his touches were absolutely magical.

I actually thought he had more of an influence than Dupont on the game, which is not something you'd say.

Dupont was excellent, don't get me wrong.

Oh, we're having it for the next couple of years, I think.

Yeah, look, he mixed the good with the downright awful.

Yeah, and a good kick to the corner that led to, I think it was the second try, a nice little front door pass.

And look, they're the positives, but...

Some of the stuff was just mad.