The Conway creed: 'I want to be scoring tries'

Twickenham has not been a happy hunting ground for the majority of Irish raiding parties and the Munster wing is zero for two from his visits to the ground

Andrew Conway: I want to be on the ball. I want to be winning balls in the air, I want to be making big hits, I want to be scoring tries.” 

You couldn’t go as far as to say that Andrew Conway’s Ireland debut made for the perfect day. That would have involved a place in the starting XV, lining up for the anthems, maybe a winning try. Still, his first cap came pretty close to ticking all the right boxes.

Pretty much everyone will remember it as the game that denied England a back-to-back Grand Slam and what would have been a world record 19th successive win. Conway’s big moment arrived during the half-time interval when injury to Keith Earls prompted his introduction at the Aviva Stadium.