An evolution being achieved by revolutionary means

Paddy Jackson wouldn’t be human if his mind didn’t park the processes that all players swear by as kick-off approaches today and wander back four years to the first and, until this, last time he wore a green jersey at Murrayfield.

Jonathan Sexton was injured that day, too, but Declan Kidney had eschewed the obvious course of action which would have been to promote the been-there-done-that Ronan O’Gara in his place.

He opted for the untested 21-year-old from Ulster instead.