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 grab of a Jamison Gibson-Park box-kick saw the ball batted down into Osborne’s hands.
"You saw in the English game how the aerial contest was huge. The amount of times the ball went up and hit the deck and scraps were won...you see Lowey does it well when he gets his body in front and uses his body as a shield.
"He’s probably up against a shorter 15 and you know he’s good in the air, the kick was probably…if he caught it, he probably would have ended up in touch himself so there was only one option for him to do.
"It was incredible [to score], but probably a bit of relief after the first half. No, it was special," he added.
The first half incident he’s referring to was his pass to Garry Ringrose on 30 minutes, which should have led to a second Irish try while they were 10-3 ahead.
Had the wide pass gone to hand, Ringrose would almost certainly have been in for a score, but Osborne’s throw was too low as it skidded out of play.
And while the full-back admitted to some frustration at his execution, he’s pleased with how he reacted later in the game.
"It was incredible [to be involved]. The Principality is probably one of the best stadiums in the world to play rugby in, roof closed, it was just amazing.
"The game itself, it was a tough game, very physical, we were probably a bit inaccurate in the first half, myself included, it should have been an easy try for Garry in the corner.
"We spoke at half time about fixing a few of the errors and being a bit more accurate in everything we did. Definitely happy to come away with the win.
"Look, it won’t be the last mistake I make, it’s not the first. There will be plenty more.
"If you go through everyone’s game, there is probably a mistake in there from everyone. The work with Gary Keegan [performance coach] we do helps, about staying present and stuff like that. It was fine."
