Niall Scannell makes for a bad spectator of rugby.
Having started for Ireland against Italy in Chicago, the Munster hooker was disappointed he didn't get a look-in for the wins over Argentina and New Zealand.
After all, Ireland racked up a 54-7 win and Scannell didn't put a foot wrong in the 40 minutes he played before being replaced by Sean Cronin – who along with captain Rory Best - sits ahead of him in the Ireland queue.
He made eight runs with the ball and Ireland had a 100% set-piece record overall. He didn't miss a tackle either.
So after getting over the disappointment of missing out on a chance to make a playing contribution in one of Ireland's most famous wins, a place in the Aviva crowd might just have driven him over the edge.
"I'm murder with the Sky Plus, fast forwarding and rewinding it"
"I just watched it at home," the Cork man told RTÉ Sport ahead of the Ireland v USA game this Saturday.
"I have to watch it at home. I can't have too many things going on.
"I was nearly anxious from lunchtime on. The seven o'clock kick-off was killing me.
"I just had to watch it at home to stay calm and try and take it in. I'm murder with the Sky Plus, fast forwarding and rewinding it.
"You always want it to be you, but obviously, it's disappointing when the squad is announced on Thursday and you're not involved.
"After that, you've prepped the lads all week. So when you see them executing things we've prepped and they execute it so well, you're 100% behind them.
"It's more the celebrations afterwards. You see them and thing I'd love to be on the pitch up in Dublin.
"That's just the nature of the game, I'm happy for the lads and they worked unbelievably hard to get that result. Everyone could see in their performance how on-task they were and how well they delivered.
"The whole group is buzzing this week going to the USA game on the back of it."
Now the job for the 26-year-old front-rower is to impress Joe Schmidt on Saturday, should he get the call for his 11th cap.
Does he feel that last week's win puts extra pressure on what will be a much-changed side to take on the Eagles?
"I feel like in this group we set our own standards so there's just always that pressure," he says.
"The standard was set last week and we won't be happy if we can't meet that standard so that's kind of a pressure that we always have on ourselves.
"That's the kind of pressure we need to keep putting on ourselves to build into a successful Six Nations campaign and to build into a World Cup.
"That's kind of where this group is at and that why it's so exciting to be part of it and why it's so competitive at training and why you can't afford to miss any rep at training. I love that challenge coming in here all the time."
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