Rory O'Connor

Statistically, so from the first three rounds of the Six Nations last year, Ireland offloaded 40 times.

First three rounds this year, 68 times.

That's a 70% increase.

Like, I trawl through these different stats.

It's very rare.

Sometimes you might get a 10% or a 15% increase and you get somewhat excited about it.

That is a big change and that means they're working on it in training.

And what does an offload gives you?

It gives you the ability to attack against an unstructured, quite often retreating defence.

But it also tells you that Ireland are in a great space physically because we're dominating the contact, which is giving us the luxury to throw these offloads.

And then we're inputting the right players in there who have the skill set, the likes of McCluskey, to be able to get the ball and keep it alive.

Yeah, like I was frazzled as well.

I've been pretty bullish England, so.

No, if I was a stockbroker, I was very much buy, buy, buy.

And it's like the tariffs have come in and I'm now sell, sell, sell.

Yeah, it was one of those days for them as well.

But they've compounded it.

It's crazy.

And that's the great thing about sport, how quickly it can change, good or bad.

And it's been a shockingly bad two weeks for them.