Preview: Experience on bench can lead way to Irish win in Wales

At a time when most of the Six Nations coaches have been worrying about giving away their state secrets, Warren Gatland has laid his gameplan bare in the UK press.

The arrival of the Netflix cameras for a Six Nations documentary, and how welcome their presence is, has been a hot topic around the various camps this week. Players and coaches are worried about the extent of the intellectual property they'll give away to their competitors, regardless of the fact that the footage gathered wont even see the light of day until this time next year.

By then, the World Cup will be in the rearview mirror, players will have retired, and some coaches may have even moved on.

Gatland isn't going in for the cloak and dagger approach. Having brought forward the naming of his matchday squad to Tuesday, a full 48 hours before Ireland named theirs, the Wales coach then gave a fairly clear picture of how his side will be approaching the game in his Telegraph column on Thursday.

Referencing Leinster, who boast 10 of the starting Ireland side, and 13 of the matchday squad, he made reference to struggles against La Rochelle, Saracens and the Bulls in recent years.

"The games they have lost have tended to be when teams have come really hard at them," he said.

It's the obvious approach, and it's an issue Ireland have had to deal with as well as Leinster, having been beaten by France in all three of their meetings during this World Cup cycle.

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But the way in which they stood up to South Africa's pack in November