Ian Madigan

It's just effort, right?

But that fear factor does drive you on.

It is, like we used to always say as players, we played with Joe on our shoulder because he made it clear what we wanted and he set the standards really high.

If that's not the focus, it is naturally going to wane over time and maybe that's something that they're going to have to bring in and

They've got the right person in there and Johnny to drive it because, you know, he was the standard bearer in Leinster and Ireland for all the time that he was playing.

He knows what good looks like.

He knows how to implement it, whether it's in training sessions, in video sessions, and ensuring that it goes into games.

Yeah, there's plenty of water to pass under the bridge between now and the team getting picked as well.

You know, we've got the Ireland A game this evening against England, really good England team.

So, like, that has serious credit to it.

If you perform well, you're going to be in with a very good chance of being involved.

Back to our point of picking form.

Someone tears the trees up tonight.

They're going to be in the 23, potentially starting.

Okay.

How the Scotland-Italy game goes is also important.

If Italy look really good and they are an improving side... Now, what I will say about them is they've consistently been really poor when we've played them in the Aviva for as long as I can remember.

And I don't want to unnecessarily be talking them up.

But if they play really well against Scotland and then suddenly they're looking at our vulnerabilities going, maybe we'll have a crack here.

The style of play that's needed to beat Italy is very different to the style of play needed to beat France.