Andy Farrell says the thoughts of winning a Grand Slam in front of a home crowd at the Aviva Stadium has been a motivating factor for his side from the very start of the championship.
Ireland welcome England to Dublin on Saturday in the final round of the Guinness Six Nations with their fate in their own hands, knowing a win will seal just a fourth Grand Slam in their history.
With the two modern day slams in 2009 and 2018 both being claimed away from home, and the final game of the 1948 title success being played at Ravenhill, a win on Saturday would mark the first time Ireland have completed a perfect championship at Lansdowne Road.
Farrell says the prospect of lifting the trophy in front of 50,000 supporters at the Aviva Stadium has been a motivating factor over the last seven weeks.
"It's something that we've talked about from day one coming in, before we went to Portugal, that it's not been done here," he said.
And he's called on the Irish fans to make themselves heard at the Aviva on Saturday.
"It's not 'any other game'. We'd be stupid to think that, it's another challenge for us, being at our best. The trophy's not a factor, it's us performing that matters the most.
"We've earned the right to have a go at that, so we know how much it means to the Irish people and their support has been unbelievable for us, and I hope there's a bit of a two-way thing on Saturday where we try and get them going, and they try and get us going as well.
"You can feel the buzz, that's what we've done, we've put ourselves in a position to have a crack at this and it's something that we've been up front about from the beginning, which is pretty pleasing. Now we're here, we've got to deliver.
"We genuinely do care about the game in Ireland. What is it, probably the fourth biggest sport? We want to grow the game, we want to inspire a generation of people to enjoy the rugby and we want to people to be proud of what we're doing and that's genuine."
Farrell has made three changes from the side that saw off Scotland in Round 4, with Robbie Henshaw and Ryan Baird coming in to replace the injured Garry Ringrose and Iain Henderson, while Jamison Gibson-Park gets the nod to start over Conor Murray.
The Leinster scrum-half made a huge impact off the bench in Murrayfield, and Farrell says it was a close call.
"Just a gut feel," he added. "Jamison is back with the team for a couple of weeks now. Whilst the lads have been rehabbing away, they've not been practicing with the team that much. The fallow week allowed Jamison, Robbie [Henshaw], and Tadhg [Furlong] to get their feet under the table.
"Obviously, the more time they can spend doing the rugby bits in training gives you the headaches you want in regard to selection. You watch and look at how Jamison played when he came off the bench and we feel he's the right man to go and attack the game.
"It's a strong side, happy with it. Fit and raring to go. Gutted for people like Garry and Iain Henderson who missed out on the last weekend, but the lads who come in get their chance to put their best foot forward. We're happy with where we are at, training went well yesterday, captain's run tomorrow, and fingers crossed everyone comes through for the game nice and healthy."
While there's a Grand Slam on the line, any meeting of Ireland and England these days throws up the subplot of a Farrell family reunion, with Andy's son Owen (above) named to start at out-half for England.
And while father and son will have a chat at some stage before the game, the Ireland coach says it will be light on detail.
"I'll have a conversation, yeah. We don't ask questions that put the other person in too much of a predicament.
"I know that he's travelling over today, he's not staying too far from our house actually.
"The grandkids are coming over today as well, so we'll be trying to poach them into our captain's run tomorrow and see if we can squeeze them to cheer for Ireland. We'll see how that goes."
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