Ian Keatley

They wanted to give him a chance to try and perform because they know how talented he is.

yeah i i like zach um i think he's done really well for ulster i just don't know how much game time he he will get with obviously you've got stockdale there and stockdale i i know um andy farrell loves stockdale and he's got that left foot option balakun done really well during the six nations and then hugo back back in form now like

I don't know if Zach will get a chance over there, but I think Zach is over there to... Listen, I hope he does.

I hope he does against Japan, but I just can't really see it with the other back three players that are there.

The most excited guy, probably because I worked with him, I'm really looking forward to watching Billy Bowen.

Obviously, loose head prop, and I think there's only him and Jeremy Lachman, so I think he'll be getting a lot of game time over there.

As I said, I worked with him at Ireland in the 20s, and everyone was talking about Alex Ustinov, who was obviously on the bench for Leinster on the weekend.

He's doing really well, but...

Billy has kind of come out of nowhere from Ross Gray and like he's... Oh, he's Newbridge.

Oh, sorry, yeah, Newbridge.

One of those black and white things.

But he's really come out of nowhere and has just like, it's almost like a new signing for Connacht, like coming through the academy, but they've promoted him so quickly because of his performances and how well he's done.

Yeah, it's something about this Irish team that they're always, like, looking for goals or new targets to reach.

And as you said there, you know, it's like, to be the first team to beat New Zealand, like, that would be hell over them.

That would be that little carrot.

And they don't really shy away from challenges.

They really, like, put them up on a pedestal and they're like, right, this is our target.

We're going for this.

Even when they struggle for the first two games in the Six Nations and, like, it felt like the whole...

country and media and fans were all against him.