Eddie O'Sullivan

And then you say, well, who ticks the best two boxes?

Probably at the moment, I suppose, if he's going to back someone into the future, he would go out Prendergast again.

He would go, like, I've got to give... Because if you take Prendergast out of it now, it sets them back big time.

And we were talking this time last year, and the way the Six Nations played out, that he had hung his hat on Prendergast.

There's no question, I doubt about that.

And he had to recalibrate that.

But I think a year on, he'd want to back him again.

And I think...

It would have been the case for Crowley.

Had Crowley had two big outings at Munster in the last two weeks where he blew the doors off, I think Crowley could probably nick it.

I have a feeling at the moment, because to shunt the way now to Harry Byrne in Paris would be a massive shift.

And what does that say to the two prototypes he was developing for the last two years?

So it's a very complicated one, but I have a sense he's going to have to back Fernandes here and say, right, I'm just going to go with it, going to trust him, give him all the support I can.

That's where I think he'll go.

That's probably where I would go as well in the circumstances.

Right, yeah.

In my position, I think, because none of the three of them tick all the boxes.

And there's an element of backing the guy you want at the end of the day who's probably going to be your starting 10 in the World Cup.

So that's why I would read it.

But it's easy, again, it's easy for me to say that.