John O'Sullivan

It's, if you look at the body of work that the women's team had going in, so you play the Celtic Challenge,

there's probably two or three matches that were really competitive, if that, in that whole tournament.

So the quality of workouts that you're getting, it's better than nothing, but it doesn't prepare you for a game like England at Twickenham and that jump in skill sets.

So when you made the point, Nathan, about the number of the Irish pack that play in the PWR in England, the Women's League in England,

That says a lot about it because they're playing at that standard and they're battle-hardened, if you like, for want of a better expression.

Whereas a lot of the backs played in the Celtic Challenge and it was kind of a little bit of chalk and cheese in terms of how they acquitted themselves.

So I think from that perspective.

But the other thing that we should mention, because it's a fantastic moment for Celtic

women's rugby is that that game in the Dexcom Stadium is preceded by an under-21 Six Nations match, women's Six Nations match between Ireland and Italy.

So,

something like that you would hope that the crowd get in early and they get a chance to see and for those hopefully future senior Irish internationals it'll be a memorable day in Galway but I think for Ireland that there's there's no excuse now they've got to go they've had a blowout and I mean that in a positive way against England and Twickenham and it's now about imposing the way they want to play on Italy and going into it with a very positive mindset and bringing a

You weren't at it.

It seemed like a sevens event.

All I saw was people up dancing, which is great.

We're making the point about teams doing well.

So the Ireland under-19 team beat France under-20 development team in Craig's during the week, and I think they're playing on Sunday, Sunday being yesterday, and I haven't seen the results of the match, and I've

I checked, but they beat a France development side.

We're 24-0 up.

And this was a French development side that beat England 57-33.

So people will be pleased to hear that there's some decent players, sorry, some decent players who can beat French teams playing, currently playing for the Ireland under-19 team.