Australia prop Angus Bell doesn't feel his impending move to Ulster puts any extra pressure on him to perform against Ireland on Saturday.
The 25-year-old Waratahs man will stay in Europe after the Wallabies tour and join up with Richie Murphy's side on a short-term deal until next summer.
Joe Schmidt’s side have lost both of their matches on their autumn tour, to England and Italy.
"I don't think there's any added pressure at all," said the Sydney man, who has 48 international caps.
"Playing for your country's enough pressure as it is.
"The pressure that we do have is privilege, be lucky enough to be playing a Test match for your country against any team, it's an incredible privilege.
"It's massive challenge, as every Test match is, but especially against the Irish.
"They're a great team, as you've seen earlier in the year when most of them were in the British and Irish Lions.
"They're great athletes, and we know how dangerous they are with ball and without."
Bell was asked why Ulster and why now was the right time to move to Belfast?
"I've had seven really good years at the Waratahs," he said.
"I grew up watching them. I remember being at a pub with my parents having dinner when I watched the 'Tahs win the [2014 Super Rugby] final when I was 12.
"I've loved my time in Australia, and I just felt it was the right time to experience some change.
"Change is the spice of life.
"You learn, you meet different people, you're under new coaches.
"Ulster have a really great coaching staff, some really good older men that played last week, [Stuart] McCloskey in the centre.
"You have got a couple forwards mixed in there too.
"It’s to experience something new, get away from Australia briefly, hopefully to come back into the environment would be great.
"It's all about learning from there, I’m still just 25 so just learning off those people around the world.
"And then obviously the URC is a pretty top competition, with top players, so it wasn't a really hard decision.
"It was something that I needed in my career, I thought would be beneficial.
"I know it’s colder than Australia, that’s for sure."
Loosehead Bell started the last three Tests and featured as a replacement in all three games against the Lions and five of their six Rugby Championship games.
He rejected the notion that fatigue could be used as an excuse saying we "definitely have enough petrol in the tank".
Saturday’s 8.10pm kick-off will be Schmidt’s last time to face Ireland as head coach of Australia, with the Kiwi set to depart his role next year to spend more time with his family.
‘Doing it for Joe’ will be part of their motivation this week against an Irish side that lost to New Zealand and eventually came good in Saturday's 41-10 win over Japan.
"100%, we know Joe has foregone a lot of family time to be with us and we know how much it means to him to coach us," Bell told RTÉ Sport.
"We are a really tight group, we all respect Joe so much as a coach and what he’s done in the game and 100% it’s a motivator, for not only Joe but the rest of the staff as well who have put in a lot of time away from home, and then also to do it for the players.
"Joe has been here for a long time and was a big part of that Irish resurgence that got Ireland to the top few teams in the world. We're just lucky that Joe is with us."
Meanwhile, Will Skelton (above) has been ruled out of the the game in Dublin and the following week’s clash with France.
The giant lock was injured playing for La Rochelle against Toulon in the Top 14.
Versatile back James O’Connor has joined the squad in Dublin.
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