James Lowe says Ireland are in a "great place" with massive competition among the squad.
Head coach Andy Farrell made six changes to his starting line-up from the team that accounted for France and another five new faces were added to the bench.
The new-look side completely dominated during the course of a Six Nation six-try hammering of Italy on Sunday afternoon.
While the likes of Peter O'Mahony, Bundee Aki and Tadhg Furlong were not considered due to injury, Tadhg Beirne was rested, Jamison Gibson-Park and Josh van der Flier started on the bench as Farrell handed starting berths to Stuart McCloskey, Craig Casey, Finlay, Bealham, James Ryan, Jack Conan and Ryan Baird.
The battle for squad places bodes well, reckons Lowe, named man of the match against the Azzurri.
"[We’re doing] pretty good," said the 31-year-old wing.
"We’d a fair few changes this week and boys who played very well in France weren’t picked this week and boys who came into the group really put their hands up and showed why they are internationals.
"We are happy with where we are sitting, it’s a pretty good position to be in.
"Happy with the performance, collectively we were on it today. Set-piece, absolutely dominated, it’s nice when you get a platform like that two weeks in a row, it sort of makes your job easier."
Lowe scored Ireland’s fifth try and made four clean breaks for 113 metres with ball in hand.
However, he acknowledged that, despite the comprehensive nature of the victory, including keeping Italy scoreless, there were aspects of the performance that had to be analysed in more details.
He said: "I don’t know [if I sounded disappointed post-match]. We were pretty happy with the result, I guess. We’ve still got to look at the game and see why wasn’t it more or better.
"We do that every week.
"I was a little jaded after the game so that’s why it came across like that.
"Look, to put in a performance like that at home, second game of the Six Nations, going forward we are in a great place. I’m sure we will pick ourselves apart.
"We need to get on the front foot and see how we can get better cos we probably left some points there as well."
Meanwhile, Italy head coach Gonzalo Quesada (above) admitted his side struggled to get to grips with the pace and efficiency of the defending Six Nations champions.
"They didn’t need to do anything special, just go through their system, their attack," said the Argentinean.
"They were always on the front foot and after several phases we were kind of waiting for them. It was not always like that, sometimes we defended better.
"The first half was a bit different to the second but when we had that 19 points of difference it was like the All Blacks from some years ago when they do their basics and they had 100% from their scrum and their lineout and at high balls.
"They were also running their rucks in attack and defence with extreme efficiency so there was nothing we didn’t expect in terms of level of performance.
"They did what we know they can do. The frustration is more that we didn’t put a bit more pressure on them."
