Eoin Sheahan

It's time to turn our attention to the rugby because the Six Nations is back this weekend.

Ireland in action against Wales in Belfast on Saturday evening at half past six.

And I'm very happy to say that we have Fiona Hayes with us on the line.

Fiona, how are you keeping?

Yeah, on the Six Nations front, it's kind of hard to figure out whether or not the break week came at a perfect time for Ireland or a bad time for Ireland because I presume after the French game, they would have loved nothing more than to get straight back out there the following week and right the wrongs of that performance in Claremont.

But they've had to wait two full weeks to do that.

Yeah.

So what is the big takeaway from that then, Fiona?

Because sure, they had three tries chalked off in that first half.

But did they kind of have to look at themselves as to why they were chalked off or do you kind of write them off straight away and say that was that was bad luck?

Let's not get too hung up on what actually wasn't awarded in that first half.

The replacements thing is a really interesting talking point.

Do we think that maybe Scott Beeman is a little bit too prescribed in what he does in terms of his substitutions in-game?

Because you could maybe make the case that he war-gamed what would happen in the match against France, had laid out when he's going to make the substitutions, who the replacements are going to be, and just kind of followed that plan as opposed to relying on instinct and seeing how the flow of the game was actually developing.

Is there a question as well of Ireland's depth at the moment?

And I don't necessarily mean that with regards to quality and the standard of the player that are coming off the bench, for example.

I mean it more so in terms of how exposed all 23 players are to top level test rugby at this stage.

That sure, you look at the 23 and you see what every person and those eight replacements can actually contribute.

But are they going to be eight game changers?

Are they going to be eight test match animals?