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Published 18:03 7 Dec 2016 GMT
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“I think most definitely France and Ireland, Ireland been impressive, they’ve obviously had their world breaking breaking win against the All Blacks, they're very well coached by Joe Schmidt and they have produced some young players."No doubt Jones would have been impressed with Ireland's performances throughout the November series which saw Schmidt mastermind victories over New Zealand and Australia. We also like the fact that he is aware of the emergence of young talent that has taken place in Schmidt's squad, with the likes of Tadhg Furlong, Joey Carbery, Josh van der Flier and Paddy Jackson all playing pivotal roles in a successful November.
It goes without saying that we don't want to be getting ahead of ourselves as, although we have France and England at home, Ireland will have to travel to Edinburgh, Rome and Cardiff during next year's tournament - no easy task.
Nevertheless, regardless of the outcome of the preceding fixtures, slam or no slam, the match against England is going to be HUGE.
And it's only three short months away.
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