RTÉ rugby analyst Bernard Jackman believes that some fears being expressed by those within the game towards a Netflix Six Nations documentary are overblown.
The IRFU and the other Six Nations teams will be paid €113,500 each to allow camera crews access into the team's training camps and dressing rooms as part of the new documentary series which will be in the vein of Formula One powerhouse Drive to Survive.
While the fees paid to each nation are relatively small, Six Nations bosses are hoping that the documentary will prove to be positive for rugby as a whole and lead to a new audience becoming invested in the game.
Some disquiet between players and coaches and the camera crews has been reported with pre-match dressing room footage believed to be a sticking point, despite the show not airing for approximately 12 months.
However, while Jackman admits that there may be teething problems, he believes they will be quickly resolved and the project as a whole will prove to be beneficial.
"I think it will settle down," he said on the RTÉ Rugby Podcast.
"The figure I saw was €120,000-odd per country for access, so probably from a coach and player point of view you’re going 'it’s not worth it, it’s not worth the intrusion'.
"But generally what will happen is that trust will be built between the cameras and the people who work for Netflix and the teams and it will settle down.
"Players and coaches won’t be as conscious of them anymore and hopefully it will be fascinating insight into what happens."
Jackman has some experience of cameras in the dressing during his time as coach of the Dragons, and he admitted that if he were to repeat the experience, he would temper his behaviour.
However, he does not believe that concerns about exposing tactical secrets will be a major issue for those involved.
"There was one that Rugby Pass did in the Dragons with a post-match review of Exeter and I certainly wouldn’t have been as hard as I was if I had my time again if the cameras weren’t there," he said.
"I think what it will do is it will give the players and coaches a chance to expose their personally and character.
"I think the most interesting thing won’t be the tactical stuff but that’s what coaches are afraid of.
"If the documentary portrays that Ireland see the way Wales defend as a weakness and they target that, obviously Wales would see how they target them then.
"Sometimes you don’t get a chance to do the things you prepare for just because of the way nature goes and obviously you play them again next year with the same coaching staff. That’s what tactically they’re afraid of.
"But there’ll be enough there with set-backs, pressure, excitement and also the personalities involved that should make it really riveting viewing."
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