It's two tries in two games so far in the Guinness Six Nations for James Lowe, although even he admits his most recent effort may have an asterisk beside it.
"Well, I don't think one of them was a try..." he says, when asked if he'll make it three from three against Italy this Saturday.
His try against France was Ireland's second of four, drawing them back within a point of Fabien Galthie's side, and taking the sting out of the try France had just scored to put themselves in front.
It was an instant reply and arguably the turning point of the game. The only issue is that it shouldn't have stood.
Lowe appeared to produce an incredible finish to dive for the corner and ground the ball under the last-ditch efforts of Damian Penaud, although replays showed his foot had gone into touch before the grounding, something that was missed by referee Wayne Barnes and his TMO.
But rather than being worried about the footwork, initially he thought he's grounded the ball over the touchline.
"Man, well I actually knew as soon as I put it down [it was out]," Lowe says as he recalls the touch of luck.
"I was thinking, 'Ah damn, this is out, don't worry about the foot'.
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"I thought I put the ball down on the line but obviously, like the curvature [of the ball]...I saw it from a bird's eye view and I thought, 'Ah!'.
"Sure look, at home you get the rub of the green sometimes. Away from home I don't think it was going to be a try so you take it when you can.
"If I can carry that on into this weekend then awesome, but at the end of the day it's about performance and results and if I get on the scoresheet or not it doesn't bother me, as long as we win."
Lowe hasn't played much rugby this season due to a combination of injury and a family matter which saw him return to New Zealand in January, but he's started the Six Nations looking fresh rather than rusty.
Ireland head to Rome for Round 3 this weekend, coming in off the back of the first break-week in the championship, with the frontline players having been able to rest, while the fringe members of the squad returned to their provinces for gametime.
And Lowe says he's confident the Irish momentum hasn't been broken by the week away from camp.
"It is nice to give the body a rest after two intense Test matches. Obviously to win away from home in Round 1 was very, very nice and then to have quite a physical encounter at home, you need a week off after a couple of Test matches like that, not to say we wouldn't have have been ready last week.
"You know a few boys probably didn’t have much game time under their belt and went back to their provinces and got a bit there, we’re ready to rumble.
"Obviously outcome wise, we’re very very happy, two very good wins but there are things to work on. I don’t want to say too much of a cliche here but we weren’t good enough in some aspects of our game, and it was nice to be able to reflect on it in a down week and hopefully implement it and be better against Italy.
"I think the team is playing very very well at the moment. A lot of boys are getting across their work early on in the week, not to say that they weren’t. Everyone has got a proper understanding of their roles and responsibilities in the week and Saturday is when we get to express it. Things are going well, we need to hold onto momentum and we know performances is the main thing at the end of the day and we don’t think we’ve put in a complete 80 yet."
With captain Johnny Sexton a doubt for this weekend's game due to a groin issue, it presents a challenge for an Irish side who have often been accused of dropping standards when the veteran out-half has been unavailable.
Sexton didn't train yesterday, with time running out for him to prove his fitness for the game in Rome, however, Lowe insists they don't have an issue setting their own standards when the captain isn't around.
"The standards are always very very high but Sexto holds himself and everyone else around him to such a high standard, that’s through time in the saddle, that’s through playing over 100 Test matches for Ireland, he’s done it before, he knows what works, he knows throughout the week that if we haven’t got our stuff right, it’s probably a reflection of how we train.
"The standards are still very high, don’t get me wrong and you could put any team in front of us at the moment and I feel like it’s up to us whether or not we perform.
"He still travels with us, he’s still in the environment, he’s still speaking in meetings, he’s still pointing out things. Just because he’s physically not playing or training doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an influence. But yeah, he’s still pointing things out.
"Even boys in his position, Ross [Byrne] and Jack [Crowley] are both very very capable 10s. So is Joey [Carbery], so it’s probably awesome for them to have someone that everyone respects who played at a high level at the age of 37 to still be around the camp as he is wealth of knowledge as he’s no problem sharing it and helping you along your own international journey."
And he believes Ireland are seeing new leaders emerge from the younger crop of players in the camp.
"When you look at the age profile of some of the boys who have played 30-odd Tests, people who have been around the environment for a long time and are still only 24 or 25 years old. You know like Doris, James Ryan, Hugo [Keenan] even, boys like that.
"Obviously Garry [Ringrose], Robbie [Henshaw], those boys play a huge part in filling the hole when Sexto is not there and they’ve got such a huge influence in how they perform and how they conduct themselves in the environment," he added.
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