Andrew Porter has spent all of his international career in the company of Andy Farrell and the Leinster prop has no doubt the current Ireland coach would be perfectly suited to leading the Lions.
The 48-year-old Farrell has twice toured as an assistant coach with the Lions, to New Zealand for the drawn series in 2017 and to Australia four years previous for a 2-1 series win.
Warren Gatland, the head coach for the last three tours, didn't take Farrell to South Africa for the last series but the Englishman is set to take charge when the announcement is made tomorrow.
Handed a four-year extension to his Ireland contract last month, the IRFU has given its blessing for the former rugby league Man of Steel to take leave from his day job to lead the Lions in Australia in 2025.
"He’s been in that set-up before and he knows exactly the demands of a Lions tour," Porter, who made his Ireland debut in 2017 when Farrell was Joe Schmidt’s defence coach, told RTÉ Sport.
"He’d be an incredible coach for something like that.
"He’s definitely shown the Irish people, and the world, what calibre of coach he is and the type of person he is as well.
"It wouldn’t be a bother to him."
Porter, who missed out on the last Lions tour with injury, has been one of Leinster’s standout players of the campaign so far and admitted that the hurt of losing out in the World Cup quarter-final to New Zealand has been a motivating factor.
"It's pretty tough for me to forget what happened," said 27-year-old, who is expected to be named in Ireland’s Six Nations squad next Wednesday.
"It’s still quite fresh. It was tough in the aftermath. I suppose you can’t let it affect you too much. You can use it as motivation, but it only goes so far.
"It’s a different group, different environment, different teams. It was a breath of fresh air coming in here [to Leinster]. You are trying to forget what happened, but it is important to use what happened to learn from.
"It does motivate me to keep going and be a better player.
"I don’t think I’ll ever be 'over it, over it’.
"It’s tough to close the book on it when you didn’t really have any closure really. It was over and then we were back home.
"The Six Nations has come around so quick. It doesn't feel like so long ago since October.
"The coaches and the players will all be excited when we get back to camp. It will be very much flipping the page because you are into France in Marseille. You couldn’t really get any bigger."
There’s work to be done on the home front first for Porter and his Leinster team-mates, who host Stade Francais in the Aviva Stadium on Saturday in round three of the Investec Champions Cup.
The hosts are two from two, against La Rochelle and Sale, in Pool 4, while Stade have lost to Leicester and Sale.
"All we can do is prepare that they are going to send their best," he said of Gonzalo Quesada’s side.
"We are not thinking too much about selection.
"They are not third in the Top14 for no reason. They put it up to Leicester as well. It’s on us really. We are not leaving anything to chance.
"It’s always special there [at the Aviva Stadium].
"It’s an incredible place to play and an incredible atmosphere when you step onto the field to play. It’s a different feeling playing in the national stadium. [Against] a team like Stade, it will be a great day hopefully."
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