Andy Farrell insists the review into Ireland's win over England won't pull any punches.
On the surface a 32-15 bonus-point win at Twickenham, while recording Ireland's biggest every win away to England, would seem like a job well done.
Ireland had been frustrated for large spells against the 14 and 13 men of Italy two weeks ago and again struggled to make their numerical advantage count in London, eventually scoring 17 unanswered points in the last 14 minutes to escape from England's clutches.
That the experience of Johnny Sexton, Peter O'Mahony, Iain Henderson, Cian Healy and Tadhg Furlong didn't having the cooling effect in the heat of battle one might expect should be a key point in the review, which began last night.
"We always do [a cold analysis]," said the head coach.
"Getting the learnings from a defeat is one thing, but getting the learnings from a bonus-point win and being harsh on yourself, being honest, is what we always do.
"The review will be the same, the group want to know how to get better so we'll make sure to get them some answers.
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"[Johnny's] our captain and he's getting better as a captain, every day, every game. He’s making sure that we get across on the field out there everything we’ve been practising during the week.
"We were tested at times there.
"In games gone past under that type of pressure we’ve folded a little bit and the leadership group, I know the lads bought into the job at hand and stayed on task.
"I knew that it wasn’t beneath them to come
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