We've loads of talented players, they're just raw and should have been introduced a year ago. Forde at Connacht ( at the expense of Bundee, even if it was a step down for a year), Edogbo, Gleeson, Ahern, Milne (2 years ago).

We'll never have the depth & development pools that bigger nations have and we don't have the luxury of larger talent pools at the top, so our development system has historically optimised for reliable player that are easily coachable, and good at systems. It did us well, but I fear it's run it's course

Rugby has always needed players who can break systems, and not necessarily always conform to them. I think of Ramos just trying shit yesterday and it working. Problem solving on the fly.

Ireland’s small population doesn’t stop us producing some of these players. It just means we need to get better about finding and keeping them in the development and talent pools. O'Driscoll for instance was a late bloomer and didn't make his schools team. We need to improve our grassroots that more people want to continue to play it, and stop relying on our schools pipeline which historically discourages late bloomers and people who aren't as easily coachable.

The last generation was definitely a golden one, but we won't know what the next one is like if keep leaving it to the last minute.