Back when Ireland's lineout was struggling at the World Cup, Paul O'Connell was quick to stress that just a few minor tune-ups were needed.
After two games of the Guinness Six Nations Ireland can boast a perfect record on their own throw, winning all 26 of their lineouts across the wins against France and Italy.
It might be a bit too early to declare the problem fixed, but the signs are good.
O'Connell, however, is keen to point out that their throw hasn't been tested quite like it was by the Springboks and All Blacks last year.
"France having a red card for one of their second rows helped, certainly," he says of their 13/13 record against the French in Marseille.
"[Paul] Willemse probably isn't a big jumper for them, but he's certainly a big lifter and it would have upset how they would have defended.
"Italy haven't challenged as much in the air in recent years as other teams. So, that's part of it."
The improvements, O'Connell says, have been small, but each one has played it's part in making their set-piece run clean.
"We haven't changed a massive amount. I'd say we're doing what we do a little bit better, across the board. How we lift, how we jump, how we call, how we throw. And all those things contribute," he added.
"In the World Cup, certainly in that South Africa game, they threw something different at us. We got our drill a little bit wrong and it led to a poor start to the game. Once we got over that, we were pretty much fine for the rest of the game.
"New Zealand got three lineouts off us in that game; two we got back straight away, one we unfortunately high-tackled from and we ended up in our corner.
"It's like every part of your game: it's never just one thing.
"There's drill in it, there's the call in it, there's the thrower in it, there's the selections you put on the menu first day - and I would say we've kind of improved a little bit in all of those regards without working on one particular thing."
Away from the lineout, Ireland look like the only team in the Six Nations to have hit the ground running after the World Cup.
And while their fast start has come as a surprise to some, particularly given the retirement of Johnny Sexton, it hasn't been a shock to those inside the camp.
"I am not surprised," said the former Lions captain.
"You are very hopeful that the work that we have done with all the players comes through but you are a bit nervous that it mightn't happen as well. We are only two games in as well. We have plenty of battles ahead of us.
"I think that one thing that Johnny [Sexton] has given a lot of the guys is that he has shown how much you have to care about the team, how much you have to care about how you prepare.
"He has shown how much you have to care about how the team feels come Saturday and he has been a great example to some of the guys who are going to end up as leaders within the team.
"While he has gone, a bit of his legacy from when he used to go about his business still lives on with us.
"A lot of the guys, Peter O'Mahony, Caelan Doris, James Ryan, Iain Henderson, Garry Ringrose, a lot of these guys, they have a few of his qualities in them that helps us to get to a good place every Saturday when we play."
While both Ireland and England have won two games from two, Ireland lead the table by two points courtesy of their bonus-point wins against France and Italy, and in some quarters are being called champions-elect,
But O'Connell (above) isn't buying into the talk that a back to back Grand Slam is already a "procession", particularly with an away trip still to come against England in Round 4.
"Listen, I haven't heard a lot of that talk," he says.
"But, one of the good things we do is we talked about winning early on, for sure, we always want to win the tournament we're playing in.
"We talked about winning it, but once we cleared that up we don't really talk about it that much.
"We just focus on the next game, what needs to be better for the next game and we get excited about doing the things that we feel might lead to a performance and make us better.
"It's a practiced skill, being next game focused, focused on the performance and I know they are clichés but it's something our guys do really well.
"Andy's [Andy Farrell] big into it, Joe Schmidt was big into it back in the day and a lot of the players are.
"It helps to prepare properly by ignoring the bigger picture and they've got very good at it.
"It serves us well and has done in the past."
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