Rory O'Connor

And sometimes it can only be the smallest chink in the armor, but you have to go all in on exposing that.

And that's where they had total confidence that they thought that they could expose England in the wide channels.

And it was just about getting it there, you know, 5, 10, 15, 20 times.

The more we can get it there, the greater our chances are of breaking them down.

But that requires bravery.

Like even we get intercepted, you know, early on in the game, you're going, oh, maybe we'll come away from that.

But no, it was like, this is the plan.

Stay with it.

It will come good.

And it did.

My feeling leading into this game was, are we becoming kind of...

a team for the big day but not necessarily a consistent team so like maybe La Rochelle they still have a big game in them but they're struggling to do it week on week and the great thing that an injury crisis gives you it forces you to uncover players Osborne at fullback has been a revelation and he will fit in somewhere into the starting back line or at least he's going to be a fantastic option for us off the bench depending on what's needed and who's available Balacoon Tommy O'Brien

In the pack, we're uncovering players because of that injury crisis.

And now we're suddenly going, oh, maybe we've got a lovely balance between experience and youth.

And they weren't.

And we also as well, it's very easy to forget round one of the Six Nations where France do a number on us, the England A come over and do a number on Ireland A. Our 20s conceded 50 points to France.

Now you can look, there's excuses with all that.

England had way more preparation in the A game.

The Ireland under-20s performance was actually better than it looked on the face of it.

It's a world-class 20s side.