Mike Ross is steady and ready to go against England

Funny thing about alarms: they might go off a matter of metres away and you wouldn't bat an eye lid, or they might strike up in the next parish and you'd drop tools on the spot. We were barely into the New Year last month when one went off that made a big impact on two men regardless of where they were standing. For Mike Ross, he was in the immediate vicinity and got it loud and clear; and for Joe Schmidt, some way removed from the scene, it sounded every bit as shrill. Ross, a fixture in the Leinster front row, was being sidelined and it was a bigger issue for Ireland than it was for the prov…