Ireland head coach Andy Farrell says Saturday's 29-10 win against England has given him a clearer picture of what his Rugby World Cup squad will look like.
Farrell is due to name his final 33-man panel for next month's Rugby World Cup on Monday 28 August, two days after this weekend's final warm-up game against Samoa in Bayonne.
It's unlikely the meeting with Samoa will have a say in the final makeup of the squad, with Farrell hinting that he may have already made his mind up before this weekend.
"Obviously we have stuff going on in the back of our mind [around selection]," he said.
"I don't know what's going to go on in Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or Friday with the captain's run over there in Bayonne. All sorts could happen so keeping people connected is important but we've obviously got a good idea of how that's going to unfold."
The game in Bayonne is being used as a guinea pig for how Ireland's game-weeks will look at the tournament. The squad traveled to Biarritz on Sunday where they will stay and train until Thursday before departing for Bayonne two days out from the game.
This will match up with their schedule for the tournament, with Ireland moving from their team base in Tours to Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris during the pool stage.
"I'm really looking forward to it," he added.
"Even recovery today. It's our first time that we've had back-to-back games because of the satellite bases that we've got in France. We travel on a Thursday and we travel back from wherever we're playing on the Sunday so we'll be doing that tomorrow," he said on Saturday evening.
"Night rugby is obviously something that we're getting used to. It's a night kick-off. There's all sorts of stuff, as far as accreditations that have to be given out. There's restrictions on that, so it's a bit of a trial run for us next week in a lot of areas so that will be good for us."
Ireland were comfortable winners against a poor England side on Saturday evening at the Aviva Stadium, scoring five tries across the 80 minutes.
In reality, the 19-point winning margin should have been far greater, with Ireland guilty of some wasteful periods in the opening 50 minutes, scoring points on just two of their first seven entries to the England 22.
And Farrell has warned that that profligacy won't be good enough at the World Cup.
"I didn't think we had that cutting edge in the first half, that grit we needed to be able to do that.
"I thought we should have been better off on the scoreboard. What goes with that is it was the first game and people trying to find a way even though we've talked about them not finding their way into the first game.
"You've have got to be at your best. I felt we just weren't at the type of edge that we wanted to be. We found it a bit more in the second-half.
"I thought we played some good rugby at times, some 'clunky' stuff again. Certainly dropping the ball at the line under pressure seems to be a start-of-the-season type of thing, dealing with that type of stuff where you are right at the line and you know you are going to be hit and people snatching at it rather than having soft hands. There was a bit of that going on," he added.
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