Simon Zebo: ‘I get bored when I’m just standing out on the wing’

Simon Zebo has hardly had time to take his seat when the first question hurtles towards him, says Brendan O’Brien.

It’s not your standard gentle opener either, but the sort of potentially awkward enquiry that normally gets held back, like a grenade with the pin already pulled.

He’s taken back to November, to the game against Australia when Ireland were 17-0 to the good and he flung an offload towards Johnny Sexton that was intercepted and returned for a try that changed the entire tone of the game.