Tadhg Furlong: This week is 'all carrot and no stick'

Pressure? Of course there is pressure but Furlong’s take is that you might as well not play sport if this isn’t the sort of opportunity to get the hairs on your arm tingling.

READY TO SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY: Ireland’s Tadhg Furlong. Pic: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland

Embrace the giddiness, or stick to the routine? Tadhg Furlong will be sampling a bit from column A and using some more from column B this week as Ireland close in on what could be a first ever Six Nations Grand Slam to be sealed in Dublin.

The first of what has been only three clean sweeps to date was claimed in Ravenhill back in 1948. The second took 61 years to be backed up, when Declan Kidney’s Irish team sealed the deal in Cardiff. And the third was stamped in Twickenham five years ago under Joe Schmidt’s watch.