Rúaidhrí O'Connor

They haven't been winning collisions and they haven't been taking the more aggressive options.

You look terrible.

Because to use a phrase we were using at the start of the championship, Farrell and his coaching ticket had a lot of fires to put out.

So Scrum was a big one.

We're not saying that's all solved, but you have to say the Tom O'Toole thing has gone reasonably well.

And the Scottish Scrum was being talked about in advance as very decent and Ireland held their own.

The line out...

We had a lot of Paul O'Connell emails in, you know.

And invariably, he sorted the thing out.

100% return on Saturday.

Discipline was a big talking point going into the French game.

We did a whole... Remember that night?

It feels like the depths of winter now.

We did a whole thing on Ireland's discipline being terrible.

Much better now.

Again, seven penalties on Saturday.

Age profile was talked about a lot.

We'll get on to the regeneration, which we've kind of seen.

And the kicking game...

Rory Ireland are now winning about 43% of their own kicks back they are tournament leaders in terms of the kicking game and winning their own ball back so all of these things do you kind of look at Farrell and I mean will he just walk into the RFU offices write a number on a piece of paper and slide it across and just walk out of the room I mean what a job he's done here to be fair to him yeah and I think he spoke in the post-match to us about how much his coaching staff is growing as well I think he's