Joe

And he was like, yeah, look, my sense from being in the meetings at the start of the week where the nines and tens would all get together and talk about a week.

My sense is that Andy likes Sam, that he the way Sam talks in those meetings for a young guy, you can tell he is tactically brilliant and has a great sense of the game.

The way he breaks down opposition, the way he talks, you know, this whole how they run the week line that people mention all the time.

And Murray's sense from those meetings is that Farrell really likes Prendergast and Prendergast's feel for rugby, his analytical brain, which was quite interesting.

Rob Carney was there as well at the launch.

And I said, who's going to start Crowley or Prendergast in Paris?

And he said, neither.

Harry Byrne's going to start.

So it's cooking.

That number 10 thing is cooking.

sorry this may be too technical I'll bring it in in a sec in my mind's eye when you describe Crowley the attack has broken down and he's kind of scurrying ball in hand and looking for an opening looking to reignite something I mean DuPont does that and we're all like this is beautiful why do they not want Crowley doing that?

No, it is.

Eddie, you're the man who has to make these decisions for real and know what it's like to really put your neck on the line.

You know, it's easy for us to throw a...

Try them there.

Do this.

Give that a roll of the dice.

You get one chance in Paris and it goes badly.

It's on you.

So what would you do?