Jamie Osborne grateful after 'incredible' Cardiff experience

One of three players making their Guinness Six Nations debut on Saturday, Jamie Osborne's afternoon encapsulated the overall Irish performance.

The 23-year-old had to shake off some first-half errors before playing a big role in Ireland’s second-half comeback, as they eventually saw out a 27-18 win to win the Triple Crown, and keep their drive for the Grand Slam going into the penultimate round.

On just his sixth cap, there’s clearly a lot of trust in the versatile back. More often seen in the centre, all four of his starts in an Irish shirt have come at full-back, where he replaced Hugo Keenan in the team this week.

His emergence as an option at 15 is one of the big additions to the depth chart in the last 12 months, with Ireland having been over-reliant on Keenan during the previous World Cup cycle.

And with such little senior rugby under his belt in that position, Osborne (below) was quick to praise his Leinster team-mate for his "incredible" advice ahead of his Six Nations debut.

"There are a lot of things we discuss in the mini-units like the back three," he said.

"Every game, even when I’m not playing, I’ll be in little player meetings where we talk about their [the opposition’s] individuals, maybe their kicking game, some of the stuff off scrum D.

"That will happen every week and if Hugo has something he wants to say, he’ll say it, he knows it inside out. Anything you get from him is definitely taken on board."

Having scored a try on his Ireland debut away to South Africa summer, Osborne repeated the trick on his maiden Six Nations appearance on Saturday, with his score on 55 minutes drawing Ireland level.

Just as it was in July, his score was laid on a plate after some incredible work by James Lowe (below), whose leaping