Andy Farrell says his selection for Ireland's second Rugby World Cup game was built around respect for Tonga, the competition and his own team.
With a massive clash against South Africa to come in round three next weekend, it had been thought that the head coach might rest some of his regular front-liners, while getting World Cup game time into some of the squad players who didn't feature in the win over Romania.
However, with the exception of scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park and hooker Dan Sheehan, who had been nursing a foot injury, the team is arguably the strongest possible XV at his disposal.
Centre Robbie Henshaw and prop Dave Kilcoyne have both recovered from hamstring injuries to take their places on the bench.
He said: "Yeah, [it's a] bit of continuity from last week, it's a different game, a different challenge, Tonga, respecting the opposition is absolutely at the forefront of our minds, respecting the competition but more so respecting ourselves.
"Every game is of the same importance for us and a strong side is what we've got within the squad of 33 anyway, as I've explained last week, so here we go again.
"It's a little bit different when you've played one game and your recovery is different and you're rowing into the next week and how we've handled that has been pretty important as well.
"There's always temptation because as far as selection is concerned we go through every different type of permutation but at the end of the day it's what is right for the team.
"Finding form, that side that played last week, hadn't played together before, we get to roll onto this one and you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't really, in some circumstances, but the only thing that I care about is winning this weekend because the points that are on offer is exactly the same as what's coming down the line.
"I suppose it's as simple as that and you look at what could happen, what does happen to people in training, you give people a so-called rest and you've seen people...I mean, we had Robbie pull out of our captain's run last week and miss the game, you have players now getting injured in training and missing the competition.
"So people could be rested this weekend and be ill for next weekend etc, so we'd like to go with what we've got, a fit side, a good side and build the momentum throughout the competition."
Four years ago, Ireland lost their second match in the pool stages, suffering a shock defeat to hosts Japan on the way to a quarter-final exit at the hands of New Zealand.
That result, said Farrell, was not a motivation for such a strong selection.
"Never," he said. "Everyone keeps talking about four years ago and I understand why from you guys' point of view but we're a different team, different circumstances, it's a different competition.
"We move on. It's never been talked about at all."
Captain Johnny Sexton, who played his first rugby in six months and scored two tries against the Oaks, is included and said he's not involved in team selection before a joking Farrell said: "He does, he picks the side."
Sexton continued: "I just rock up to training and do my best. Obviously I want to play, I mean when you only have a certain amount of games left of course you want to play.
"But it's what is right for the team, what is right for different individuals and that was probably all taken into consideration but no, I didn't have to do much talking.
"Tonga are a really good team and they have got some really, really good players, they've had a massive boost with the players who have come back so some of the questions aren't really reflecting the way we're preparing and the way we're talking within camp.
"So we're expecting a very tough game against top class opposition with very good coaches. It's going to be a tough game."
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