Welcome back to the Quick Tap. I'm Charlie Morgan, the Telegraph Senior Rugby writer.

And for our final episode this autumn, I'm joined by England Saracens fallback, Alex Gou.

Goody, how are you?

I'm very well. You're saying a bit husky yourself, big night.

Christmas party Thursday, battled on through, where are we Saturday now? Just still chucking, mate.

In November, eh? Of course.

Of course. Of course. Cheaper. Today we have former Ireland hooker, acting head of performance at Horse Sport Island.

Pundit extraordinary with the RTE, the 42.0.I.e.

and columnist at Sunday End of Pended.

Bernard, huge pleasure to have you, mate.

Yeah, thanks, lads.

It's like to be here just back from the Viva, where Ireland got the win, three from four,

but plenty of the chat about well we'll be diving into that

game soon and that nail biter but tonight we're changing up our format so we're going to

talk about lions debate our starting 15s and have lots of arguments no doubt so if you're

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So buckle up and enjoy the ride. So an island sign off their autumn in their year with 2219 win over Australia, possibly a microcosm of their autumn?

Yeah, we've huffed and we've puffed, but we haven't blown the house down.

I mean, Ireland's attack since the World Cup has become more predictable.

Just today's game, the last 20 minutes kind of reminds me a little bit about, of the quarterfinal defeat to New Zealand, the World Cup, where Ireland had to keep the ball in hand.

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