'The only problem in the Stade de France is it's just so noisy the last couple of weeks with Irish fans, so it's impossible to hear each other!'
Joe Schmidt gets a lot of credit for his analytical skills - but Ireland's stats man reckons Andy Farrell's coaching team deserves just as much.
"They’ve all got analytical minds," said Hammond, who is working on the data side with John Buckley and Alan Walsh in Paris while two of their colleagues also crunch the numbers back in Dublin."But if you look at, say, Faz’s approach, you look at Simon Easterby, the detail they’ve gone into with the lineout - any coach who gets to this level I think has to have a mind that is significantly analytical.
"But I think anything that he would have come up with or led in Irish rugby, the remnants are still there. Hammond is Farrell's go-to man for all the crucial data that comes out of training but particularly out of matches. "So I think sometimes people get hooked into a negative on a missed tackle stat, but actually a lot of the teams in the world now that are missing more tackles are conceding less points.
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