A rugby player, coach and manager during a glittering career with Munster, Ireland and the Lions and now a definitive voice in Irish rugby analysis and commentary.
It's 26 years since such radical surgery was undertaken by an Irish management team on a side looking to bounce back from a shattering defeat in the opening game of a Six Nations campaign.
The difference back then was Warren Gatland and I were backed into a corner when taking radical measures in promoting five young men for their first caps after a comprehensive pasting at the hands of England at Twickenham.
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