Ire versus England - RTÉ 2 Saturday Aug 19th 17.30pm

Or Lowe, neither of them have his acceleration off the mark or footwork (they have other talents before people jump at me).

Earls is our best finisher out wide since Geoghegan

Couldn't disagree with this more Lawrence.

Win the SA match, and the Scottish game is no longer a must-win game.

I'd much rather 3 must-win games in a row rather than 4.

Go fully loaded against SA, hopefully win. A few bruised bodies for sure, but then you've 2 weeks before you play Scotland where you could continue to rest some players for the QF the week after if necessary.

And they are way more afraid of us than we are of them, they show twitch all the mind games their coaches are trying to play and the way their fans act on social media compared to the Irish coaches and fans act.

I can't remember that being an easy win in November? I thought if SA had a decent kicker, they would have won.

I believe it would have been a draw. My point is that I wouldn't have called it any easy win. I was there, and at the Aussie match a couple of weeks later. Neither felt easy, but Ireland seem to be in a pretty good place the last few years where they can eke out the tight ones.

But you see that's the thing, the fact we are being level headed about a comfortable English win compared to SA for instance who are losing the run of themselves after being a Wales b/c team show's just how good a position we are in!

I hope they dont lose sleep, they'll get a massive reality check about their standing in rugby compared to Ireland in afew weeks. After the way SA and Scotland played in the 6N and RC they'd be more concerned about beating each other and finishing 2nd than us if they had any sense.

That game in November is not a good indicator.

They didn’t have Faf de Klerk, Libbock or le Roux starting.

Ireland were struggling to get anything going until Kolbe Yellow.

Ireland didn’t have Lowe that day. Lowe and Hansen are brilliant playmakers for this side.

Still think Ireland can beat SA even if Pollard plays. I’d be a little less confident with Byrne at 10. Still doesn’t offer a meaningful run threat and can look lost when the plays breakdown or when play is behind the gainline.

Doesn't say much about South Africa's supposed great strength in depth though does it?

Regardless of who Ireland puts out Ireland win and quite often by a decent margin, 8th straight game Ireland won by 13 points or more and Ireland's 12th straight win overall, whereas when SA lose a player and under perform they whinge about injuries. Again who looks in better shape when disaster strikes in the RWC...

Would you play sexton in it?

This is nonsense. Unless Ireland were holding back their real gameplan in NZ and during the last two Six Nations , teams already have more than enough to analyse on Ireland. Now is the time to start performing.

We heard the "we're holding stuff back" excuse 4 years ago. I'm not falling for that again.

I..... Like..... Big..... Boks and I cannot lie.

I appreciate what you’re saying here but it’s highly likely that they have been working on new strike plays in the long preseason. An example work be the Keenan try against France.

You would be a naive to use this in the warm up games. I would also hazard a guess that the lineout calling would be basic in these games.