I think

we're all saying it, but it's hard to argue.

Bundy, you could argue, is the best 12 that Ireland have ever had.

So it's not as if it was like...

some random lad that wasn't in Ireland jersey.

Like there's an argument there to be made.

Now I'm not making it that Bundy is the best 12 that Ireland ever had.

Stuart, where does it sit for you as somebody who was watching on that day and couldn't play a part?

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Um, well, s- sorry, the, the public.

Um, you could see a bit of it, like media, um, kinda ...

I think when the team has been so good for the last, I know we didn't obviously win that quarterfinal, which probably everybody goes back to in the World Cup, but what this team's done over the last five, six y- five-odd years, I think that's, I think three or four Triple Crowns in the last five years, two, two Six Nations and one Grand Slam.

Like, it's been pretty good.

Um, so like people, when it doesn't go well, probably start to worry that it's gonna go back to what it was 15, 20 years ago, not winning all the time.

But I think it turned around pretty quickly when [laughs] the games started going well, especially the England game away.

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But what was the chat that week though? I mean, it was the Ireland team under pressure going to, to England.

Um, I think we felt that obviously we hadn't performed well in the French game.

Uh, well for most of the first 50 minutes anyway and then I thought we'd built on like a lot of things we were trying to do we'd sort of been working on and I thought they were sort of came through in the Italy game although they might have not finished the score wise what we wanted I thought we'd worked on a lot of things and I thought they were coming through but I think a lot of things came together that week and then you have that extra added sort of inspiration of beating England in Twickenham so there's a lot of emotional energy going into that weekend as well so I think it all sort of came together I think we held off England well for the first 15-20 minutes and thankfully scored a few tries off minimal enough phases towards the end of that half

Was there a different approach or was it just the opportunity at the right time for you to really, to really put on a show this time around?

Firstly, I appreciate you saying that though.

There's probably a few things that go into it.

Like there's obviously times where maybe the last, Three or four years where I played consistently enough.

Before the World Cup, when we won the Grand Slam, I played the first start of the first three games, then got injured.

second decision, yeah.

Yeah, it's probably frustrating, obviously.

But it is for the good.

I suppose it is for the good of the players.

You'll see some of the challenges that are going on when you lads are playing the way Donaghy, yourself and Polly used to attack rucks.

Probably for the best, that's not the game anymore.

But yeah, no, it...

You hear chat now with like a kick a kilometre and you could win the game, you know?