James Lowe learns that mistakes come at a higher price at Test level

He carried often and with good effect, and allied it with a howitzer boot, but the George North and Louis Rees-Zammit tries found him wanting positionally

James Lowe: 'Obviously, mistakes are amplified, aren’t they? That’s the big thing. The small margins, that’s huge'. Picture: Gareth Everett/Sportsfile

James Lowe says it as he sees it. Has done since he arrived in Ireland.

The residency rule that has allowed him, a Kiwi born and bred, to turn out for this country after three years living in Dublin? Stupid, he said a few years back. And as for the Six Nations? Well, it’s not like it kept him awake at night down on the South Island.