Their inclusion has come at the expense of the experienced players. I have not picked these guys because they are young - they are in because they have forced their way in. |
There is no risk to his participation against Scotland. |
There were some very hard calls made to reduce the squad to our match 22, but as always we have gone with the players in form at this time. |
There's always a reaction from any team that has gone through a trauma such as a change of coach or a run of losses. It usually galvanizes the team and pulls them together. They often bounce back stronger for it. Wales will want to show they're as strong as ever. They'll be more fired up than usual. |
They scored one good try but we gifted them the rest and paid the price. |
Tommy was there in the autumn and played well, and again his form has been good for Ulster. Shane Horgan has played his way into the right wing position. Tommy would have more experience at this level on the wing but I wouldn't have a problem with Andrew filling in there if he had too. |
We are authors of our own destiny and we are pretty happy with that. |
We were made to work for it, because they made tackle after tackle after tackle. There were no easy options in those conditions, we had to go toe-to-toe with them. |
We'll be playing against a pretty hard pack on Saturday. There will be a lot of close quarter hand-to-hand combat so we've picked a back row to meet that. |
We're going to hear the result tomorrow. If he's cleared he'll play on Saturday. Anthony Foley will start if he's not cleared. |
We're in the situation we wanted to be in. We go to Twickenham with a Triple Crown there for the taking as well. That's a nice place to be after four games. |
We're trying to get a balance to our performance, and starting well is part of it. |
With the number of injuries to some of our big players, it makes it an even worse scenario for us, |