Twickenham tussle the kind of game I relish, says Cian Healy

Too slow, too attritional.

The opening two rounds of the Six Nations have not made for pleasant watching, and critics have been quick to use them as further evidence in the case against the northern hemisphere’s supposedly Neanderthal approach to the game.

The debate in Ireland has been heightened by the absence through injury of so many key players, not just those who have fallen in the line of duty against Wales and France but also those like Peter O’Mahony and Iain Henderson who were ruled out long before that.