(At the risk of jinxing it by saying it out loud) If we beat the Boks this weekend we will have had an unbeaten year. So no pressure Jonny.

With Luke Fitzgerald out for a while Keith Earls is on the wing, hopefully his Summer with the Lions will act as a nice bit of prep for the Springboks even if his tour was a bit hit and miss and we’ve got the back row that should’ve been in the Lions tests so this game should be a good ‘un.

Especially if Cian Healy manages to pull another run like this out of the bag:

Can Ireland still trust in BOD?

I don’t want to say too much because I always get a bit paranoid about jinxing our chances but I’m definitely pretty excited (where by pretty excited I mean super-psyched) about the Six Nations this year.

I think the schedule is good for us and although I don’t agree with leaving out Eoin Reddan I think the rest of the team for our opener is the right one and without a doubt BOD should be our captain.

Also interested to see how Bergamasco gets on at scrum half…